Former boxer Conjestina Achieng has reportedly torched her house in Gem Yala citing frustrations.
The 43-year-old former WIBF Middleweight champion has been in and out of mental facilities without her condition improving.
In January 2011, Conjestina’s father sent an appeal to Kenyans to help him take her to hospital after her behaviour deteriorated from the norm.
According to the father, Conjestina had removed her son from school, set ablaze to all her boxing gear and disposed of all the equipment from her gymnasium, which she had opened in 2009.
She was admitted at the Mathari hospital in Nairobi which specialises in mental health care. She was later released.
There have been several other efforts including one by former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko to rehabilitate her without much change.
Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko had initially offered to rehabilitate Conjestina in 2018, and following months of progress, she showed hints of progress as she embarked on the road to full recovery.
So much was her progress that in March 2019, she appeared in rare circumstances to witness Fatuma Zarika overpower Zambian boxer Catherine Phiri.
That joy was however short-lived as the boxer regressed a year later, with Radull making her plight known to the public during her visit to Yala.
“Unfortunately I also took masks for her and her family and Conje said they will not wear them as there is no need. My logic fell on deaf ears,” Radull disclosed at the time.
The boxer along with her family, however, welcomed foodstuffs and other supplies donated by Radull who was accompanied by her sister.
