Former NTV health journalist Nasibo Kabale is in a rehab and doing well, her mother has said.
She said her daughter checked into rehabilitation way before the video of her explaining her condition went viral.
“She’s in rehab and she’s already checked in and it’s just a video that trended but ako sawa,” she said.
She spoke at her home in Jamhuri estate, Nairobi, when comedian cum social rights activist and philanthropist, Eric Omondi, visited her to follow up on her daughter’s case.
Omondi was one of the Kenyans who had offered to help get Nasibo off the streets after the video of her living in squalor surfaced online on Thursday.
“Hey guys, I visited Nasibo's home in Jamhuri today. She was flown to a rehab this morning by her brother. The mother says she'll be okay and has requested for our prayers. God bless you,” Omondi captioned the brief interview posted on his Instagram handle.
In the video, Omodi explained that he decided to visit Nasibo’s home in light of conflicting information he had received concerning her fate.
“I wanted to get it from the horse’s mouth and as I’m speaking to you, Nasibo is okay, she has been flown to a rehab. She is okay, she will be okay but we needed to know that because when we saw the video, some were saying this others that, but the mother has explained the situation,” he said.
“So that’s the story, ako na kwao, she’s not homeless and she will be okay. Let’s keep praying for the family. Be blessed for your concern.”
In the viral video that first exposed her situation to Kenyans, Nasibo said she slipped into depression in 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
She said she has not been able to get help partly because people don’t understand that depression is a real disease.
“They think maybe you are feeling sorry for yourself and I have learnt that sometimes when you are down, people abandon you,” she said.
Nasibo said she would like to get back to what she does best but not on TV – podcasting and vlogging– if she gets the equipment.
“I used to be a writer but the media is changing, people don’t even buy newspapers anymore so I would like to do something along with the podcast area,” she said.
Nasibo said she already has a ring light and all she needs now is a good phone and microphone and she’ll be back into business.
