A 94 year old Kenyan man has been reunited with his family in mayengo village,Mwatate Tarta-Taveta country after being away for 42 yrs.
Hiltan kalugho says he left home for Tanzania in 1980 to look for fortune in the neighboring country leaving behind his wife and seven children.
I left home in search of greener pastures because I wanted a good future for my children. Unfortunately I was unable to come back home because I did not get the money, I unexpected to get to feed my family". He said.
According to the senior citizen, life at the border town at moronomi where he first worked as a gemstone miner,he did not, however,turn out as he envisioned, forcing him to try his luck at livestock herding.
We did not get any breakthrough. What we used to get was only enough to substain us, said kalugho.
By this time, kalugho says,he had refused to remarry and yearning to return home. It tool a Kenyan pastor who had visited the area ti share kalugho story on social media and reunite him with his family.
Kalugho son, Mnjala Mwaluma, said after unfruitful searches for their father over the years, he was called by the pastor to inform him that he had been found in Tanzania.
Recently I received a call from a pastor telling me my father had been traced in Tanzania. He came with Mombasa where he went to meet what said Mwaluma.
Kalugho returned home last week to find that his wife had died in 2007, as did his two other sons.
I feel so bad that some of my kindly members are not here to witness the reunion. I had longed to see my wife and all my caloler, he said.