94 years old Man returns with nothing after spending 42 years abroad, came to meet his wife dead.

After 42 years apart, a 94-year-old Kenyan man was reunited with his family in Majengo village, Mwatate, Taita-Taveta.

Hiltan Kalugho claims he moved to Tanzania in 1980, leaving behind his wife and seven children, to seek prosperity in the neighboring country.

In an interview with Sunday Nation, he stated:

“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 expected to get to feed my family,”.

Life in the border town of Mororoni, where he originally worked as a gemstone miner, did not, according to the elderly citizen, turn out as he had hoped, prompting him to try his hand at sheep herding.

Kalugho claims he had refused to remarry by this time and yearned to return home. Kalugho was reunited with his family after a Kenyan pastor who had visited the area shared his story on social media.

Mnjala Mwaluma, Kalugho’s son, said that after years of unsuccessful searches for his father, he was called by the pastor to inform him that he had been discovered in Tanzania.

“We did not get any breakthrough. What we used to get was only enough to sustain us,” said Kalugho.

“Recently I received a call from a pastor telling me my father had been traced in Tanzania. He came with him to Mombasa where we went to meet him,” said Mwaluma.

Kalugho arrived home last week to discover that his wife, as well as his two other boys, had died in 2007.

“I feel so bad that some of my family members are not here to witness the reunion. I had longed to see my wife and all my children.” he said.

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