The year is 2016 hapo mid year , I and my buddy jamo establish a hotel in kiganjo Thika.
I still used to work as a teacher in a private highskul , don’t wish to post the school name coz they still owe me to date. Anyway jamo was a famous charcoal vender as he would sell a bag of charcoal in 3 days . I remember he had so many kasukus (Mikebe ile ya plastic ya kimbo na kasuku) all sizes. He had makaa ya 50/=, 40, 35, 20, ata ya 15/= . It’s this year the gava decided to crackdown all those destroying our natural resources like trees… Meaning Bei ya makaa ilipanda from 800/= ngunia to 2500/= hapa hakukuwa na otherwise kusare hiyo wera …
He gave me an idea of setting up a hotel…
Yes u guessed write… We set up a kibandaski hotel.
We went shopping bought sufurias, jikos, ile jiko ya kupika mitura na choma , drum ya kuchemsha supu na some mabatis.
Pia tukapitia place kunauzwa second hand items n bought some tables and chairs . In kiganjo since Ni some type of slum this things come cheap . Meza was 500, and a 3 seater sofa ile ya mbao @1k .
. So with 8k furniture was available. …jamo came to my house tukabeba t.v na gotv tukapeleka kwa hoteli pia …
…rent ya hoteli was 3 k + deposit ya 3 k …week 2 tukaanza job. We also hired a meru lady …back in office walimu called me CEO , mwalimu wa biashara… I was untouchable , I even told the students to be passing by and get some lunch or chipo…
By week 3 business had not picked + we were heading to close the school meaning I would work there that holiday…
Week 5 business was bad still and I decided to introduce vichwa za mbuzi, supu na mitura na maraa. Hapo ndio nilijua bamaa nrby. Would wake up at 3a.m by 5a.m Niko bumaa or bamaa wateva it’s called… There vichwa hupangwa Kama nyanya sokoni , Kuna kichwa hata ya thatee Bob…sijui Kama kulichange sahiii…
Biashara ya supu na vichwa picked up , but I remember one day the whole neghbourhood complained of stomach upsets , nikasikia mzee wa nyumba kumi is investigating where I get my vichwa …nikacheza chini n stopped cooking that soup … It’s then that jamo came up with a crazy idea …" Mbona tusiuze twanaaa, " twana was a 3rd generation illicit alcohol packed in some plastic bottle retailing at 50 Bob…jamo was the Mastermind behind this scheme… By week 7 hoteli ilikuwa inajaa by 7 a.m …most customers been wanaume … The secret code to be served kanaa was ‘chai kubwa na chai ndogo’ chai kubwa was fifty Bob, chai ndogo’ twendi fae… hahahaha.
So we would fill the cups with kanaa …and here again watu was wivu Ni wa wivu tu…yule mzee wa nyumba kumi started investigating why our hotel was popular to young n old men …
The kanaa business was a tickling time bomb plus gavana waititu then an mp for kabete was busy campaigning the downfall of wines n spirit shops…but ours was a hotel…
Anyway one day nikiwa shule on a Sato , I received a call from a strange no …“niaje mwalimu, kijana wako jamo ameshikwa na pombe zake” …
.waaaaah
Then kidogo kidogo I received a WhatsApp message photo … Wen I checked it was jamo handcuffed in a certain AP post in kiandutu…
I then received another call from the AP post "mwalimu fika hapa saiii na ukuje na 20k au kesi I we kubwa " …Lord of Israel …I thought of running to Somali land n join …but nikajipea hope … Jamo lived nearby and I had keys to his house, I knew where he kept the daily savings, chini ya t.v.
He had saved kshs 5k took it n straight Hadi AP post … Kufika AP post nikapelekwa kwa choo na afande mmoja we bargained Hadi ikafika 3k …jamo was set free na akarudishiwa mzigo yake on condition tuwe tunaachota kitu every Friday they keep a blind eye on the biz…
The kanaa business continued for a while but what finished us was waititu madness when one afternoon women stormed our hotel n confiscated the fombe , goons stole the furniture n my TV …sufuria tu ndio niliokoa…
