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SOME 30 MENTALLY ill patients are still missing from a psychiatric hospital in the Kenyan capital Nairobi after 40 people escaped yesterday morning, officials said.
“We are now talking of 30 mental patients who are not back. Some have come back on their own volition while some were captured and brought back by their relatives,” police chief Samuel Anampiu said.
Anampiu said two of the escapees went back to the hospital voluntarily while eight others were returned by their families.
The patients overpowered guards and forced open the door of their ward in the Mathari Mental Hospital yesterday morning.
Planned breakout
“Many scaled over the wall and went through Mathare area and a few confident ones used the main gate. When they are traced they should be brought back for their medication,” Anampiu said, adding that all those who escaped were men.
The police chief said that the breakout must have been well planned for it to have had that level of success.
“They must have strategised. It is not possible that without proper planning 75 people can break two doors and more than half of them run away,” he explained.
“It is the place I need to be.”
Kevin Kemboi, an escapee who was returned to the facility by family members, said he escaped after another patient told him that the hospital nurses were on strike.
“I just followed one of the patients … then made my way home. At home I realised the environment was different. I felt like I was being disturbed by snakes and decided to go back. It is the place I need to be,” he said before breaking down into tears.
Anampiu earlier announced that the police had all the details of the escapees which “will make it easy for us to identify them”.
At least 35 others were stopped by guards from leaving after the initial breakout.
The hospital lies close to the sprawling Mathare slum district of Nairobi and has been criticised in the past over the conditions its patients live in.
- © AFP 2013.
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30 flew over the cuckoos nest.
Coming to a screen near you; Out of Africa…part 2.
Hope every1 is found safe and sound…..
A large gang escaped from an asylum in Dublin and are currently residing in Kildare Street.
took me a while but got it eventually…..lol
thats just mental! ted
Not that mad if they have been planning it for weeks…. Good on them… Our mad men and women run the country.
If the cops are looking for leads as the whereabouts of the escaped psychiatric patients, look no further than this thread of comments. They returned to the scene of the crime.
Kenya has been going to the hounds since the British. Some people are not for to govern themselves.
Found one! he’s been trolling the journal for a couple of days. Isn’t that right indago!!
Troll? This has been said before. Why? Because you do not like what it is I say? Look at GDP levels, it is true.
Even yesterday, I get 600 green arrows. I am no troll, I am trying to be like the Irish.
Oh so because someone has an opinion that is different they get classed as a troll. Idiot
It was the British who exploited Kenya in the first place and when they left it in a mess they called it part of the commonwealth.Guess who got the wealth.
I suppose the same could be said about Zimbabwe, gdp figures plummet when the throw out/kill all the white farmers
Classic :-D
Try using your own name if you want to call people idiots.
You’re a disgrace martina.
Your one judging by the bull coming from you
Explain ?
How so? have you not seen his comments over past couple of days? please enlighten me, as I’ve seen his posts and they are not designed to do anything else but wind people up and get a reaction.
Indogo, I would like to apologise for the actions of my fellow Irish citizens behaviour towards you on this site. I have been watching how you have been having a harsh time and its just not on. Trust me they are a minority. Every country has them. I got a hard time being a foreigner living abroad too. We all know there is healing in forgiveness and repaying evil with love. God bless.
And we are ????
@ind , thats reply to earlier comment about governance ;-)
please explain that to me when you go back over indagos comments, there’s only one racist commenting on the ‘priory hall’ article when he claims only ‘white people’ get the big houses from the council. don’t you dare try throwing the race card at me. get your facts straight!
Adam, I’ve seen his comments too and I think your way off line calling her a racist!!!
Im well aware he’s a troll your replies to him only fuel on his fun but your comment stereotyping africans as abusing the welfare system is disturbing.
I didn’t say it in first place! he did! for godsake! go back and read his comments and if anyone is inciting racism it is him and I think that is what his intention is.
That’s a stupid comment lol …. Am a Kenyan and proud to be one
Right, Adam, I’ve gone back through that lads posts and he has used the housing issue on a couple of occasions , he also accuses anyone who disagrees with him either a racist or he’s been discriminated against, yet he he has on two occasions said that white people are shown favouritism regarding social housing. Now if you or I said that about another race we’d be accused of been racist. He’s a Troll and comments from trolls should not be taken seriously. I see through his little game!
40? They’re probably already in this country working for the government
One flew over the kikuyu’s nest?
I love the list of services provided!
Any chance of getting back with ah, ha?
haven’t seen those two lads in years, Sean, last time they were footin a bit of turf for me but didn’t suit their soft hands so had to let them go, bit of a reunion coming up soon so ill see them then. tickets can be got at your local post office or on thicket master website. just quote 20hoppers for online discount. :)
The lunatic is on the grass
Gerald there are no coloured people!!!
I have heard of Irish people sleeping on their first night abroad being woke up by coloured man going through their pockets . When they grab the robber they have shouted at them you are racist . Result person is taken aback. Then the robber makes his getaway. True story..
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