Dorcas Rigathi says burying two brothers pushed her to fight alcoholism

The Spouse of the deputy president, Pastor Dorcas Rigathi has revealed that her passion for the fight against alcoholism is from the loss of her brother and brother-in-law to alcoholism.

Speaking to students of the University of Embu in Embu County, Pastor Dorcas shared the pain of her family losing one of the brothers.

“Don’t think I do all these things (fighting against drugs and alcoholism) without background or something that has happened to my family. We have lost brothers to alcohol, my own brother and my brother-in-law. One of those we buried was an engineer, another one was a medical doctor in South Africa,” Pastor Dorcas told the university students.

“When I speak, I speak as one who has knowledge of what alcoholism can do. Please stay sober.”

One of the beneficiaries of her programs, Godffrey Mwago, a recovering addict, gave the students his journey to alcoholism having lost two jobs in the past due to alcoholism.

Mwago was taken for rehabilitation in Timau, Meru County last year.

Pastor Dorcas is on a three-day tour of Embu County where her office will be screening some of the addicts for rehabilitation today at Embu Stadium.