BY MWANAHABARI REPORTER
Like any mother would, Mama Lilian Ndiego did everything so she could be allowed to fly from Kenya to Canada to be with her sick son.
Her son Tevin Obiga, had been admitted at a hospital in Winnipeg, Canada.
Obiga went to Canada to study Computer Engineering studies at the University of Manitoba, but got ill on January 13, leading to his admission in hospital.
According to the doctors in Canada, Obiga, a 25-year-old Kenyan footballer, was suffering from blastomycosis, a fungal infection known to infect the lungs.
Determined to see her son, and to be next to his hospital bed, Lilian Ndiego applied for a single-entry temporary Visa that would allow her to see her son, but unfortunately, she was denied entry.
Lilian was denied entry into Canada on grounds that many Kenyans who fly into Canada never return home at the expiry of their visas.
She was devastated. Her son was still on life support at St Boniface Hospital in Canada.
“I was disappointed because they informed me that most Kenyans who go to Canada don’t come back,” Ndiego would say.
But when international media picked her story, the whole world got to know about her plight, the plight of a mother.
Indeed Winnipeg Member of Parliament, Terry Duguid, wrote a letter to the High Commission of Canada in Kenya.
In the letter, she asked that Lilian be allowed to visit Canada to be with her son at this trying moment.
Lillian was granted a Visa to travel to Canada.
A jubilant Lilian said: “I’m excited and very grateful. I’m looking forward to seeing my son and giving him moral support. All I’m thinking is that my son is going to come out from the ICU. He’s going to be on his fee.”