Imagine taking your aged father, mother, grandparents, or any relative to a home care owned by a church and later finding out that they are beaten, molested, raped, and treated worse than village dogs? Imagine the disbelief and that pain, and the guilt you will feel…
Imagine the food to your aged relative being thrown on the floor, at a home care owned by a church, without a plate him/her being forced to eat it like a dog, and when he/she refuses, they are beaten with wood and canes like criminals. Imagine that.
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Well, this is what is happening at Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) Thogoto Care Home for the Aged in Kiambu County, just a few kilometers from Nairobi as revealed in harrowing videos documented by BBC Africa Eye Investigation.
Secret filming by BBC Africa Eye shows staff members at PCEA Thogoto physically mistreating residents, dumping food directly onto tables without any plates, and leaving medical conditions untreated. Some are molested and left for dead.
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The care home was set up by the Women’s Guild of the local PCEA church but is now managed independently. It is home to around 50 elderly women and men, some of the most vulnerable in society who need all the utmost care that they need. But here, they are in HELL.
In one of the videos, the staff at the facility are seen physically beating up the elderly who are defenseless and helpless. The church is yet to speak on the harrowing happenings but most likely, as they always do, they will deny it and life will move on.
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Kenya has a projected total population of 56 million of which approximately 2.2 million (4.2 percent) are people aged 60 years and older (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2019), however, the 2019 census data estimated that older people comprise a more significant proportion of the population (6 percent of 47.5 million or 2.7 million people).
Like elsewhere in the region, the population is experiencing rapid demographic change, and the proportion of older people in the population is expected to more than double to 10.3 percent by 2050.
More on the story HERE ON BBC Africa Eye.