Second Lady Dorcas Rigathi has finally hired former KTN reporter Johana Chacha who successfully graduated from her alcohol and drugs rehabilitation programme.
Speaking at the Mpesa Foundation Academy on Saturday, the second lady indicated that Johana Chacha had officially joined her media team.
The reporter was one of the thousands of youth who embarked on the rehabilitation programme after wasting away a portion of their lives through alcoholism.
“I have seen when I am going round the country saving my boy child and they tell you it started as a joke (Alcoholism, Drugs and substance abuse). I have one who is standing behind there and he was employed in KTN and many other places but I found him in the gutter," Pastor Dorcas stated.
"But when he made a decision, and he went for rehabilitation, went through the dignified future classes, now look at him, he is dignified and working with my media team.“
“When I was doing this, I never imagined it would amount to this kind of transformation. When Kisii and his father came, they had never talked for years, so they were reunited," she added.
Chacha joined the programme during the screening in Nairobi’s Dagoreti area and successfully graduated after intense work.
In November 2023, the journalist who underwent his rehabilitation at Riruta Stadium, Kawangware in Nairobi County revealed that his substance abuse was the main cause for his firing.
He noted that he was fired in 2016 after he failed to show up to work for 3 consecutive days.
"On the last day when I was fired, I had failed to show up at work for three days. When I got into the office, I was unable to explain myself because I had been caught red-handed. They had even tried to look for me at home during the period I was unavailable," he recalled at the time.
"Once I was fired, I even started drinking more because I saw that I had no direction in life. My childhood dream was cut short."
Chacha later landed a temporary gig but soon became jobless, a predicament that lasted until Pastor Dorcas rescued him.
"I have been jobless since then, and when I heard that Pastor Dorcas had a programme named Dignified Future, I decided to join.
"We have been trained on how to avoid alcohol through different ways such as cutting off communication with friends who are likely to influence us during our recovery," he stated.
Thousands of youth have since passed through the programme with varied degrees of success.
