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This guy Frank Njenga is pure psychopath. A predator that will do anything and suck any dick for money.
There is a book (http://kenyastockholm.com/2012/01/16/tit-bits-into-migunas-explosive-book/) and many other news and many media pages detailing the exploits of this murderer.
As you know, Dr. Frank Njenga owns AAR Holdings and its subsidiary companies:
(aarhealth.com)
The psycho also ownsThe Retreat Rehab Center (theretreatkenya.org)
Here are the fake bios posted in theretreatkenya.org Anyone who associates themselves with a cannibal psychiatrist needs to be locked up.
CHAIRMAN - Dr. Marx M.O. Okonji
Consultant Psychiatrist
Tel:[protected], Cell:[protected]
Email: [protected]@wananchi.com
Location: The Nairobi Hospital Doctors Plaza.
Dr. Marx Okonji is registered by the Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board as a Medical Practitioner and is currently in private practice. He is also a consultant psychiatrist at Nairobi Hospital, Mater Hospital, Aga Khan and MP Shah Hospital.
Dr. Okonji has previously lectured at United States International University (USIU) Africa and has also served as Deputy Director Medical Services in Charge of Mental Health Kenya.
DIRECTOR - Dr. Frank Njenga
Consultant Psychiatrist
Tel:[protected],
Cell:[protected]
Email: [protected]@africaonline.co.ke
Location: Upper Hill Medical Centre.
Dr. Frank Njenga has been in private practice for the past 21years and is an active participant in social, political and medical fields in Kenya, Africa and the World.
He has previously served as President of African Association of Psychiatrists and Allied Professions (AAPAP) and a member of the Publications Committee of WPA.
Currently Dr. Frank Njenga is the Chairman of AAR Medical Services and National Campaign Against Drug Abuse Authority Board (NACADA).
DIRECTOR - Dr. Pius Akivaga Kigamwa
Consultant Psychiatrist
Tel:[protected] / 2846445, Cell:[protected]
Email: [protected]@africaonline.co.ke
Location: The Nairobi Hospital Doctors Plaza.
Dr. Kigamwa has been in practice for 18 years and he holds an MBChB and MMed (Psychiatry) from the University of Nairobi and Certificate in Community Psychiatry from the University of The Orange Free State.
He has previously worked at Machakos District Hospital, Embu Provincial General Hospital and also served as a Secretary of the Kenya Psychiatric Association.
Currently he is in private practice and is also a Senior Lecturer/Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Nairobi.
DIRECTOR - Dr.Anna Nguithi
Consultant Psychiatrist
Tel:[protected]
Cell:[protected]
Email: [protected]@yahoo.com
Location: Upper Hill Medical Centre
Dr. Anna Nguithi is in practice and has been a partner with F.G. Njenga & Nguithi Associates for more that (15) fifteen years.
She has served at the Ministry of Health as the District Psychiatrist for Kiambu and a Consultant Psychiatrist at Kenyatta National Hospital.
She has been a past Assistant Treasurer for Kenya Psychiatric Association (KPA) and an Assistant Secretary of Kenya Medial Women's Association (KMWA). She is an international member of the Royal College of Psychiatry and The American Psychiatric Association.
DIRECTOR - Dr. Frederick Richard Owiti
Consultant Psychiatrist
Tel:[protected], Cell:[protected]
Email: [protected]@africaonline.co.ke
Location: Arrow House, Nairobi
Dr. Frederick Owiti has been in private practice for the past 22 years and has a MRCPPsych from the University of London and an MB CH.B from the University of Nairobi.
He has previously worked at Mathari Hospital as Senior House Officer in Psychiatry and also served as a consultant Psychiatrist for the Ministry of Health.
Currently Dr. Frederick Owiti is in private practice and is also a Medical Consultant in United Nations Intravenous Drug Users Reference Group.
Here are the fake bios posted about the board of directors of aarhealth.com.
Dr. Frank Njenga
Chairman
Dr. Njenga is a renowned consultant psychiatrist. He graduated from the University of Nairobi with a degree in medicine, later becoming a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists at Maudlsey Hospital in 1980.Despite his busy schedule, the doctor finds time for a number of social and business activities including running the only custom-built psychiatric unit at the Chiromo Lane Medical Centre. He is also the Director of the Students Campaign Against Drug Abuse.He is the current chair of the Board of NACADA (National Agency for the Campaign Against Drug Abuse) and has authored several scientific papers and books.
Jagi Gakunju
Chief Executive Officer, AAR Holdings
Jagi joined AAR in 1992 as Sales and Marketing Manager and moved through the ranks to his current position. He was responsible for restructuring and realigning the company between 2004 and 2006, and for bringing in PVI as key investors. He is particularly focused on expansion into other regions in Africa. He holds a Masters degree in healthcare administration from Minnesota University. A lawyer by profession, he obtained his LLB at Nairobi University and is a keen environmentalist. He is the chairman and founder member o[censored]vumbuzi Club and was honoured with a UN Recognition Award on Solid Waste Management through his association with the club. Jagi is a Director of the Africa Fund for Endangered Wildlife (AFEW Kenya), a Council Member of Wildlife Clubs of Kenya and a former Director of Friends of Nairobi National Park (FONNAP).
Max Coppoolse
Max Coppoolse (MA) graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a master's degree in industrial psychology. After graduation, Max worked at Unilever for 11 years and gained experience in reorganizing companies in Africa by his employment as the team leader of an international team which reorganized United Africa Company (UAC) based in Lagos Nigeria, a company responsible for up to 10% of worldwide profits o[censored]nilever.
After returning to the Netherlands, Max joined KPN in 1990 as General Manager Business and Mobile Communication, and was responsible for a turnover EUR 600 million per year and oversaw 7000 employees. Following his career in general management, Max was employed by Philips from 1993 to 1998 in various functions, ranging from CEO of Philips Malaysia to General Manager of two media subsidiaries of Philips. In 2000, Max joined Vodafone, where he served as a Director Special Projects.
In 2003, Max became COO of PharmAccess Foundation, and was responsible for all operations of PharmAccess Foundation. In this function, Max gained extensive experience in the health sector in Africa. Since 2007 Max is the Managing Director of the Investment Fund for Health in Africa (IFHA), a private equity fund dedicated from small to medium size (equity) investments in private healthcare companies in (sub-Saharan) Africa.
Pieter Zuijdgeest
Pieter Zuijdgeest serves as CFO for the Investment Fund for Health in Africa (IFHA).
With over 25 years of experience as a financial and operations executive, Pieter has detailed knowledge of finance, acquisitions, divestments, IT and management.
Prior to joining IFHA, Pieter has been an entrepreneur for the past 8 years owning an IT & Telecommunications company with 100 employees and financed by a UK based venture capital fund. During this period he acquired five and divested 3 companies; the company was successfully sold in 2008.
More recently he served as a CFO of a large Dutch ICT & Telecom group and CEO of a software development company. Prior to this he served as a Partner of the Consulting Service Practice of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and the Global Consulting practice of Ernst & Young Consulting where he focused on the implementation of ERP and CRM service solutions worldwide. Previously, he served as Finance Director for Lanier Europe, a Ricoh company and Senior Manager of international audit practice of Ernst & Whinney and Moret Ernst & Young.
Pieter completed the chartered accountant study at NIVRA (Netherlands Institute of Chartered Accountants) in 1986.
There is a book (http://kenyastockholm.com/2012/01/16/tit-bits-into-migunas-explosive-book/) and many other news and many media pages detailing the exploits of this murderer.
As you know, Dr. Frank Njenga owns AAR Holdings and its subsidiary companies:
(aarhealth.com)
The psycho also ownsThe Retreat Rehab Center (theretreatkenya.org)
Here are the fake bios posted in theretreatkenya.org Anyone who associates themselves with a cannibal psychiatrist needs to be locked up.
CHAIRMAN - Dr. Marx M.O. Okonji
Consultant Psychiatrist
Tel:[protected], Cell:[protected]
Email: [protected]@wananchi.com
Location: The Nairobi Hospital Doctors Plaza.
Dr. Marx Okonji is registered by the Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board as a Medical Practitioner and is currently in private practice. He is also a consultant psychiatrist at Nairobi Hospital, Mater Hospital, Aga Khan and MP Shah Hospital.
Dr. Okonji has previously lectured at United States International University (USIU) Africa and has also served as Deputy Director Medical Services in Charge of Mental Health Kenya.
DIRECTOR - Dr. Frank Njenga
Consultant Psychiatrist
Tel:[protected],
Cell:[protected]
Email: [protected]@africaonline.co.ke
Location: Upper Hill Medical Centre.
Dr. Frank Njenga has been in private practice for the past 21years and is an active participant in social, political and medical fields in Kenya, Africa and the World.
He has previously served as President of African Association of Psychiatrists and Allied Professions (AAPAP) and a member of the Publications Committee of WPA.
Currently Dr. Frank Njenga is the Chairman of AAR Medical Services and National Campaign Against Drug Abuse Authority Board (NACADA).
DIRECTOR - Dr. Pius Akivaga Kigamwa
Consultant Psychiatrist
Tel:[protected] / 2846445, Cell:[protected]
Email: [protected]@africaonline.co.ke
Location: The Nairobi Hospital Doctors Plaza.
Dr. Kigamwa has been in practice for 18 years and he holds an MBChB and MMed (Psychiatry) from the University of Nairobi and Certificate in Community Psychiatry from the University of The Orange Free State.
He has previously worked at Machakos District Hospital, Embu Provincial General Hospital and also served as a Secretary of the Kenya Psychiatric Association.
Currently he is in private practice and is also a Senior Lecturer/Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Nairobi.
DIRECTOR - Dr.Anna Nguithi
Consultant Psychiatrist
Tel:[protected]
Cell:[protected]
Email: [protected]@yahoo.com
Location: Upper Hill Medical Centre
Dr. Anna Nguithi is in practice and has been a partner with F.G. Njenga & Nguithi Associates for more that (15) fifteen years.
She has served at the Ministry of Health as the District Psychiatrist for Kiambu and a Consultant Psychiatrist at Kenyatta National Hospital.
She has been a past Assistant Treasurer for Kenya Psychiatric Association (KPA) and an Assistant Secretary of Kenya Medial Women's Association (KMWA). She is an international member of the Royal College of Psychiatry and The American Psychiatric Association.
DIRECTOR - Dr. Frederick Richard Owiti
Consultant Psychiatrist
Tel:[protected], Cell:[protected]
Email: [protected]@africaonline.co.ke
Location: Arrow House, Nairobi
Dr. Frederick Owiti has been in private practice for the past 22 years and has a MRCPPsych from the University of London and an MB CH.B from the University of Nairobi.
He has previously worked at Mathari Hospital as Senior House Officer in Psychiatry and also served as a consultant Psychiatrist for the Ministry of Health.
Currently Dr. Frederick Owiti is in private practice and is also a Medical Consultant in United Nations Intravenous Drug Users Reference Group.
Here are the fake bios posted about the board of directors of aarhealth.com.
Dr. Frank Njenga
Chairman
Dr. Njenga is a renowned consultant psychiatrist. He graduated from the University of Nairobi with a degree in medicine, later becoming a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists at Maudlsey Hospital in 1980.Despite his busy schedule, the doctor finds time for a number of social and business activities including running the only custom-built psychiatric unit at the Chiromo Lane Medical Centre. He is also the Director of the Students Campaign Against Drug Abuse.He is the current chair of the Board of NACADA (National Agency for the Campaign Against Drug Abuse) and has authored several scientific papers and books.
Jagi Gakunju
Chief Executive Officer, AAR Holdings
Jagi joined AAR in 1992 as Sales and Marketing Manager and moved through the ranks to his current position. He was responsible for restructuring and realigning the company between 2004 and 2006, and for bringing in PVI as key investors. He is particularly focused on expansion into other regions in Africa. He holds a Masters degree in healthcare administration from Minnesota University. A lawyer by profession, he obtained his LLB at Nairobi University and is a keen environmentalist. He is the chairman and founder member o[censored]vumbuzi Club and was honoured with a UN Recognition Award on Solid Waste Management through his association with the club. Jagi is a Director of the Africa Fund for Endangered Wildlife (AFEW Kenya), a Council Member of Wildlife Clubs of Kenya and a former Director of Friends of Nairobi National Park (FONNAP).
Max Coppoolse
Max Coppoolse (MA) graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a master's degree in industrial psychology. After graduation, Max worked at Unilever for 11 years and gained experience in reorganizing companies in Africa by his employment as the team leader of an international team which reorganized United Africa Company (UAC) based in Lagos Nigeria, a company responsible for up to 10% of worldwide profits o[censored]nilever.
After returning to the Netherlands, Max joined KPN in 1990 as General Manager Business and Mobile Communication, and was responsible for a turnover EUR 600 million per year and oversaw 7000 employees. Following his career in general management, Max was employed by Philips from 1993 to 1998 in various functions, ranging from CEO of Philips Malaysia to General Manager of two media subsidiaries of Philips. In 2000, Max joined Vodafone, where he served as a Director Special Projects.
In 2003, Max became COO of PharmAccess Foundation, and was responsible for all operations of PharmAccess Foundation. In this function, Max gained extensive experience in the health sector in Africa. Since 2007 Max is the Managing Director of the Investment Fund for Health in Africa (IFHA), a private equity fund dedicated from small to medium size (equity) investments in private healthcare companies in (sub-Saharan) Africa.
Pieter Zuijdgeest
Pieter Zuijdgeest serves as CFO for the Investment Fund for Health in Africa (IFHA).
With over 25 years of experience as a financial and operations executive, Pieter has detailed knowledge of finance, acquisitions, divestments, IT and management.
Prior to joining IFHA, Pieter has been an entrepreneur for the past 8 years owning an IT & Telecommunications company with 100 employees and financed by a UK based venture capital fund. During this period he acquired five and divested 3 companies; the company was successfully sold in 2008.
More recently he served as a CFO of a large Dutch ICT & Telecom group and CEO of a software development company. Prior to this he served as a Partner of the Consulting Service Practice of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and the Global Consulting practice of Ernst & Young Consulting where he focused on the implementation of ERP and CRM service solutions worldwide. Previously, he served as Finance Director for Lanier Europe, a Ricoh company and Senior Manager of international audit practice of Ernst & Whinney and Moret Ernst & Young.
Pieter completed the chartered accountant study at NIVRA (Netherlands Institute of Chartered Accountants) in 1986.
This guy Frank Njenga is pure psychopath. A predator that will do anything and suck any dick for money.
There is a book (http://kenyastockholm.com/2012/01/16/tit-bits-into-migunas-explosive-book/) and many other news and many media pages detailing the exploits of this murderer.
As you know, Dr. Frank Njenga owns AAR Holdings and its subsidiary companies:
(aarhealth.com)
The psycho also ownsThe Retreat Rehab Center (theretreatkenya.org)
There is a book (http://kenyastockholm.com/2012/01/16/tit-bits-into-migunas-explosive-book/) and many other news and many media pages detailing the exploits of this murderer.
As you know, Dr. Frank Njenga owns AAR Holdings and its subsidiary companies:
(aarhealth.com)
The psycho also ownsThe Retreat Rehab Center (theretreatkenya.org)
Frederick Richard Owiti and Frank Njenga are regular customers at Koinange Street, picking up malayas. There's an You Tube video where these two ### were caught negotiating with a 14 year-old malaya.
Links to some stories still there on the net:
http://kenyastockholm.com/2012/01/16/tit-bits-into-migunas-explosive-book/
http://diasporamessenger.com/esther-arunga-part-2-dr-frank-njenga-forcefully-abo...⇄
http://kenyastockholm.com/2012/01/16/tit-bits-into-migunas-explosive-book/
http://diasporamessenger.com/esther-arunga-part-2-dr-frank-njenga-forcefully-abo...⇄
Here is an article that low-level reporters at CNN, Leposo Lillian, David McKenzie and Jessica Ellis wrote: edition.cnn.com/2012/01/31/health/frank-njenga-mental-health/index.html
This is and criminal deception. Advertising filth paid by a businessman who preaches miracle cures (see picture), owns insurance companies and drug retreats.
If Leposo Lillian, David McKenzie and Jessica Ellis every checked the facts and did any REAL journalism, they would never have published such nonsense about a ###, ## and ###. edition.cnn.com/2012/01/31/health/frank-njenga-mental-health/index.html
DR. FRANK NJENGA'S ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES ARE WELL DOCUMENT AND A SIMPLE GOOGLE SEARCH WOULD REVEAL A FEW OF HIS CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. THERE ARE BOOKS AND PERSONAL POSTS ABOUT THIS CRIMINAL.
Three little people wrote such nonsense and tainted the medical profession with miracles and voodoo, and promoting a criminal businessman like Frank Njenga.
Here's the truth. I know this because I used to be a family friend Frank Njenga.
Frank Njenga never read a book that inspired him to become a psychiatrist. He wanted to learn how to exploit people and take their money by tricking them. He is a businessman, con-artist and a criminal. Not a doctor. He owns three businesses: AAR Holdings, The Retreat Rehab Center (theretreatkenya.org) which is really a front for political oppression, murder, and rape, and his private practice in upper hill, Nairobi.
It works like this, a corrupt politician or businessman wants to silently silence people from talking, they call Frank Njenga who drugs them, aborts their babies, or chemically castrates them, or outright kills them and then blames the death on illicit drug overdose. If they are alive, they abortion, or chemical castration causes a psychological scar so deep that they retreat into mental illness or kill themselves. Either way they keep quiet and Frank Njenga makes money and gains powerful friends and associates.
Frank Njenga has not contributed to anything except his facebook (see picture).
Here is the advertising that Leposo Lillian, David McKenzie and Jessica Ellis wrote for CNN. These people give journalists and bad name and they should be fired.
From edition.cnn.com/2012/01/31/health/frank-njenga-mental-health/index.html
I'M POSTING IT HERE UNDER FAIR USE. IT'S ALSO NONSENSE.
[protected]---
Editor's note: Every week CNN International's African Voices highlights Africa's most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera.
(CNN) -- As Kenya's leading psychiatrist, Frank Njenga has been championing the cause of better mental health care on the east African country and the continent for more than three decades.
He's been working tirelessly to bring quality mental health care in a country where mentally disabled people receive little help from the state and face massive stigma from society.
"It's a horrible indictment on what we've done but the truth and reality is that very little has been done systematically and deliberately by government or by ourselves to bring up the level of mental health in this part of the world, " says Njenga.
In Kenya, an estimated three million, mostly poor, people live with intellectual and mental disabilities, according to NGO and United Nations figures. At the same time, the ratio of psychiatrists to the population is dismal -- just one psychiatrist to half a million people.
See also: Kenya's mentally ill locked up and forgotten
But Njenga, who is president of the African Association of Psychiatrists, says the problem is even worse in other countries on the continent.
A psychiatrist in Kenya
Lessons of mental healthcare
"It is a major challenge but it is a challenge that is very sadly is spread across the whole of the Africa continent, " he says Njenga.
"In fact, Kenya is ironically behind South Africa and perhaps Egypt in the ratios of psychiatrists that are available per population. There are countries in Africa where there is no single psychiatrist to five-six million people."
This has motivated Njenga to dedicate his life helping mental health patients and raising awareness in a continent where mental disorders are often neglected and described as "un-African" and belonging to "people in the West."
Njenga, however, discards such claims as "clear nonsense."
"For as long as you are a self-confessed human being you will continue to suffer human conditions of which mental disorders are an integral part, " he says.
Read also: Namibia's 'miracle doctor' brings gift of sight
Njenga describes Africa as "truly the traumatized continent" that's been plagued by wars, human suffering and lethal dictatorships.
"Whether you are looking at Rwanda or southern Sudan or Sierra Leone or DRC, the number of women and children and adults who have suffered severe trauma is greater than any other continent that I can think of."
We are losing far too many men and women to mental illness and therefore to un-productivity by not treating them for mental illness.
Frank Njenga
He underlines the link between good mental health and productivity and calls policy makers to make mental health services a priority in order to help their countries escape poverty.
"There is no health without mental health and there is no economy, " says Njenga. "We are losing far too many men and women to mental illness and therefore to un-productivity by not treating them for mental illness."
Born in Kenya, Njenga was inspired as a teenager by the work of psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, writer of "Wretched of the Earth, " a seminal book that explores identity and the post-colonial experience.
From then on, Njenga was convinced he wanted to be a psychiatrist. He went on to study psychology throughout medical school in Kenya before moving to the UK for his post-graduate studies at the Maudsley Hospital -- the world's oldest psychiatric hospital.
At the end of this studies, however, Njenga chose not to pursue a career in the UK but to return to his home country, committed to promoting the cause of better mental health in the continent.
"I went to the UK to come back and to come back as a psychiatrist and to make a difference in my homeland and in my continent. That is the reason I left Kenya and that is the reason I came back, " he says.
Read also:The Africans giving aid to the world
On his return to Kenya, Njenga embarked on a mission to reduce the social stigma that is attached to going to a psychiatrist or seeing a mental health professional.
In a ground-breaking weekly show called "Frankly Speaking, " Njenga spoke with his patients on television, putting the spotlight on tough issues such as schizophrenia and substance abuse -- taboo topics that were usually kept out of public sight.
Today the discussion of mental health issues on this continent is focused and is positive -- about that I feel proud and privileged.
Frank Njenga
"I felt powerful and relaxed I felt at last here I was able to tell it exactly as it was, " he says. "Of all the things I have done in this society and community it is the program on television -- Frankly Speaking -- because I spoke frankly as my name is and my patients spoke very frankly indeed."
In his commitment to providing top-notch mental health care, Njenga also helped build a private in-patient psychiatric hospital, the first of its kind in Kenya.
He's also authored several children's books in a bid to build better understanding of mental illness and advocated for an insurance cover for mental health patients as chairman of the largest insurance company in Kenya.
Through awareness and affordable treatment, Njenga has changed how many people in Kenya think about mental health.
"Today the discussion of mental health issues on this continent is focused and is positive -- about that I feel proud and privileged, " he says.
CNN's Leposo Lillian, David McKenzie and Jessica Ellis contributed to this report.
[protected]---
This is and criminal deception. Advertising filth paid by a businessman who preaches miracle cures (see picture), owns insurance companies and drug retreats.
If Leposo Lillian, David McKenzie and Jessica Ellis every checked the facts and did any REAL journalism, they would never have published such nonsense about a ###, ## and ###. edition.cnn.com/2012/01/31/health/frank-njenga-mental-health/index.html
DR. FRANK NJENGA'S ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES ARE WELL DOCUMENT AND A SIMPLE GOOGLE SEARCH WOULD REVEAL A FEW OF HIS CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. THERE ARE BOOKS AND PERSONAL POSTS ABOUT THIS CRIMINAL.
Three little people wrote such nonsense and tainted the medical profession with miracles and voodoo, and promoting a criminal businessman like Frank Njenga.
Here's the truth. I know this because I used to be a family friend Frank Njenga.
Frank Njenga never read a book that inspired him to become a psychiatrist. He wanted to learn how to exploit people and take their money by tricking them. He is a businessman, con-artist and a criminal. Not a doctor. He owns three businesses: AAR Holdings, The Retreat Rehab Center (theretreatkenya.org) which is really a front for political oppression, murder, and rape, and his private practice in upper hill, Nairobi.
It works like this, a corrupt politician or businessman wants to silently silence people from talking, they call Frank Njenga who drugs them, aborts their babies, or chemically castrates them, or outright kills them and then blames the death on illicit drug overdose. If they are alive, they abortion, or chemical castration causes a psychological scar so deep that they retreat into mental illness or kill themselves. Either way they keep quiet and Frank Njenga makes money and gains powerful friends and associates.
Frank Njenga has not contributed to anything except his facebook (see picture).
Here is the advertising that Leposo Lillian, David McKenzie and Jessica Ellis wrote for CNN. These people give journalists and bad name and they should be fired.
From edition.cnn.com/2012/01/31/health/frank-njenga-mental-health/index.html
I'M POSTING IT HERE UNDER FAIR USE. IT'S ALSO NONSENSE.
[protected]---
Editor's note: Every week CNN International's African Voices highlights Africa's most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera.
(CNN) -- As Kenya's leading psychiatrist, Frank Njenga has been championing the cause of better mental health care on the east African country and the continent for more than three decades.
He's been working tirelessly to bring quality mental health care in a country where mentally disabled people receive little help from the state and face massive stigma from society.
"It's a horrible indictment on what we've done but the truth and reality is that very little has been done systematically and deliberately by government or by ourselves to bring up the level of mental health in this part of the world, " says Njenga.
In Kenya, an estimated three million, mostly poor, people live with intellectual and mental disabilities, according to NGO and United Nations figures. At the same time, the ratio of psychiatrists to the population is dismal -- just one psychiatrist to half a million people.
See also: Kenya's mentally ill locked up and forgotten
But Njenga, who is president of the African Association of Psychiatrists, says the problem is even worse in other countries on the continent.
A psychiatrist in Kenya
Lessons of mental healthcare
"It is a major challenge but it is a challenge that is very sadly is spread across the whole of the Africa continent, " he says Njenga.
"In fact, Kenya is ironically behind South Africa and perhaps Egypt in the ratios of psychiatrists that are available per population. There are countries in Africa where there is no single psychiatrist to five-six million people."
This has motivated Njenga to dedicate his life helping mental health patients and raising awareness in a continent where mental disorders are often neglected and described as "un-African" and belonging to "people in the West."
Njenga, however, discards such claims as "clear nonsense."
"For as long as you are a self-confessed human being you will continue to suffer human conditions of which mental disorders are an integral part, " he says.
Read also: Namibia's 'miracle doctor' brings gift of sight
Njenga describes Africa as "truly the traumatized continent" that's been plagued by wars, human suffering and lethal dictatorships.
"Whether you are looking at Rwanda or southern Sudan or Sierra Leone or DRC, the number of women and children and adults who have suffered severe trauma is greater than any other continent that I can think of."
We are losing far too many men and women to mental illness and therefore to un-productivity by not treating them for mental illness.
Frank Njenga
He underlines the link between good mental health and productivity and calls policy makers to make mental health services a priority in order to help their countries escape poverty.
"There is no health without mental health and there is no economy, " says Njenga. "We are losing far too many men and women to mental illness and therefore to un-productivity by not treating them for mental illness."
Born in Kenya, Njenga was inspired as a teenager by the work of psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, writer of "Wretched of the Earth, " a seminal book that explores identity and the post-colonial experience.
From then on, Njenga was convinced he wanted to be a psychiatrist. He went on to study psychology throughout medical school in Kenya before moving to the UK for his post-graduate studies at the Maudsley Hospital -- the world's oldest psychiatric hospital.
At the end of this studies, however, Njenga chose not to pursue a career in the UK but to return to his home country, committed to promoting the cause of better mental health in the continent.
"I went to the UK to come back and to come back as a psychiatrist and to make a difference in my homeland and in my continent. That is the reason I left Kenya and that is the reason I came back, " he says.
Read also:The Africans giving aid to the world
On his return to Kenya, Njenga embarked on a mission to reduce the social stigma that is attached to going to a psychiatrist or seeing a mental health professional.
In a ground-breaking weekly show called "Frankly Speaking, " Njenga spoke with his patients on television, putting the spotlight on tough issues such as schizophrenia and substance abuse -- taboo topics that were usually kept out of public sight.
Today the discussion of mental health issues on this continent is focused and is positive -- about that I feel proud and privileged.
Frank Njenga
"I felt powerful and relaxed I felt at last here I was able to tell it exactly as it was, " he says. "Of all the things I have done in this society and community it is the program on television -- Frankly Speaking -- because I spoke frankly as my name is and my patients spoke very frankly indeed."
In his commitment to providing top-notch mental health care, Njenga also helped build a private in-patient psychiatric hospital, the first of its kind in Kenya.
He's also authored several children's books in a bid to build better understanding of mental illness and advocated for an insurance cover for mental health patients as chairman of the largest insurance company in Kenya.
Through awareness and affordable treatment, Njenga has changed how many people in Kenya think about mental health.
"Today the discussion of mental health issues on this continent is focused and is positive -- about that I feel proud and privileged, " he says.
CNN's Leposo Lillian, David McKenzie and Jessica Ellis contributed to this report.
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