This is serious. And true.
This pal of mine, a very nice Samia from Busia, has been my pal for the last 30 years. In fact, we call each other ‘brother’. Very nice jamaa, wale wa three beers then home. Hakuna tu dirty titties hapa na pale kama you know who. Good family man with two kids. He’s been in private business for the last 15 years.
His wife is a prison warder, a senior superintendent. Ame-rise pole pole to her current rank, and she’s earning fairly good money when you consider her ‘additional’ income. A luhya I don’t know from where. Wakipatana kalikuwa junior officer pale Langata, my buddy was with NAS at JKIA, loaded kiasi.
Sasa shida ni hii; the guy has been going down for the last five years or so. Biashara zake zote ni kama kurogwa, or the guy was simply never meant for business. Kila kitu anafanya kinakunywa maji. Last deal alipoteza 1m to a fake NGO.
Needless to say kwake hakukaliki. The wife says the guy is a loser, and she’s locked her money up in fixed deposit accounts and gavament bonds. Eti ni pesa ya watoto. Jamaa akiitisha even 200,000 afanye supplies kwa serikali at least alipe rent, which he has been doing all along, anaambiwa atapoteza like all the other money before. Na ni ya kukopa mind you! Sasa rent arrears zimefika 5 months - Sh300,000 - na auctioneers ndio hao. Fees ya watoto ndiyo hiyo. And yet, in the fixed accounts za bibi there’s something like 8 million, unashindwa ni ya nini. The wife is adamant that fees na rent ni majukumu ya mzee.
Jamaa amepata stress ni kama kichwa itapiga.
The other day he came to me nikamwambia hivi, auze plot moja yake iko Rongai, about 5m, alipie watoto rent halafu ajitoe kwa hiyo hao kama mwaka moja. Aende achukue single-room hata Ruai aji-nyce back to health, financially, emotionally and physically. Bibi akipata bwana mwingine, sawa. Akimngoja, sawa.
Lakini nikamwambia whatever he does ajitoe from that toxic environment.
Shida yake ni kama ameizoea hiyo bad environment. Hataki kutoka ni kama ako na Stockholm Syndrome ya kuitwa Baba Nanii ama Bwana Nanii. Kila siku madharao ndogo-ndogo na yeye ameshikilia tu. Simuelewi.
I was thinking about the dude just now when I was streaming down the Southern By-pass from Thogoto to drop a dirty titties alininyonya mboro jana nikakumbuka case ya Mugenda, which I see you have exhaustively discussed. Huyu ndugu wangu naona kama ako kwa hiyo njia panda, but the dude is so adamant and obstinate eti things will improve and they will somehow fall in love again. Pthuuu! He’s been saying that for the last few years and I see no improvement.
Your thoughts please.