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My 25-year battle with alcoholism

Photo/JENNIFER MUIRURI

David Irungu, with his wife Wangui and their children Joyceline Wambui Irungu (right) Mercy Njeri (left) and Roseline Wanjiku, at their home.

David Irungu traces his first taste of alcohol to 1978, when he was a Form Six student, at Kijabe High School.

He and his friends had visited the local shopping centre and, on the spur of the moment, they decided to take a beer.