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He should be 13 years old now, a boy becoming a teenager, playing soccer with his friends, doing his schoolwork, his whole life stretching ahead of him.
Instead Michael Komape will forever be known as the five-year-old who died in a pit latrine, one hand reaching out from a well of unimaginable filth in a heartbreaking – and unanswered – plea for help.
The little boy’s death rocked the country and cast fresh light on the nation’s appalling rate of service delivery. Something had to be done to prevent another child from dying.
