Former Tahidi High actor Joseph Kinuthia, popularly known as Omosh, has opened up about one of the most powerful and personal moments of his life, the day he got on his knees, gave his life to Christ, and walked away from cigarettes and drugs for good.

Speaking on Radio47 on Thursday, May 21, 2026, Omosh told his story, describing how cigarettes had followed him everywhere, even into hospital after he was operated on for ulcers in 1996, sneaking out to smoke right there in the ward.

“Fegi ilishinda,” he said.

Doctors advised him to reduce gradually rather than stop all of a sudden, warning that quitting all at once could shock his body.

However, Omosh made a different decision and told God he only needed two days.

Just two days without smoking, and he believed that would be enough.

He attempted to pray and fast over a Sunday, inspired by the discipline he had seen in his Muslim friends who could go the whole day without eating or drinking.

He managed that Sunday without smoking. But the next morning, a domestic argument with his wife sent him walking out of the house in anger, and without even realising it, he found himself at a shop, cigarette in hand, stepping onto the balcony.

“Nikaenda nikachukua fegi nikakuja nikaingia kwa balcony nikaseti fegi. Nimepiga fegi mosi, mbili, tatu nikajuliza, kai! Ni nini hii nafanya?” he recalled.

He threw the cigarette down and walked back inside. His wife had already left.

Alone in the bedroom, Omosh broke down completely, sliding down the door until he was sitting on the floor, his t-shirt soaked with tears and mucus, crying in a way he said he had never cried before or since.

In that moment, sitting on the floor, his mind went back to college, to the people he had studied with who had finished their courses and built their lives while he had lost his way.

It was at this moment that a verse came to him. Come to me all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

“Nikamwambia Mungu, ulisema tu huu mzigo ni mzito, utanibebea,” he said.

He got on his knees, prayed a prayer of repentance, handed everything to Jesus, and gave his life to Christ.

“That moment it was ninth of January at around eleven in the morning. That’s when I gave my life to Christ,” he said.

From that moment, he said cigarettes began to smell bad to him and the craving was simply gone.

Omosh has not touched drugs or cigarettes ever since January 9, 2020, eleven in the morning.