Who will end the pain? Plight of boy tethered without medicare

Chemket Angolei, 84, unties 8-year-old Karengit Lotukei from the tree he had been tethered to under the scorching sun in Cheptunoyo, Baringo County. The boy has a mental illness. [Photo: Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

The world turned its back on 8-year-old Karingit Lotukei when he was only two years old after his mother died.

His problems did not end there because three years later, the speech-impaired boy contracted what villagers believe is a mental illness and since then he spends his days tethered to a tree while partially naked.