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Man to pay Sh500,000, demolish pit latrine for HIV status remark

A woman asked her neighbour to stop digging a latrine as the dust was unsettling. However, her neighbour blurted that she should stop complaining as she would die from HIV/AIDS anyway. [iStockphoto]

When James was writing in the Holy Bible about the tongue being a small body part but which causes immense troubles, perhaps he had foreseen a fierce tongue-fight between neighbours over a pit latrine which has ended up being a very expensive one.

In his writing, James stated that a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. He continued in his chapter three and verse five that the tongue is also a fire.

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