Bonfire Ventures CEO claims the famous street couple are biting into the hand that feed them

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Bonfire Adventures CEO Simon Kabu has refuted allegations that he used famous street couple, Virginia Njeri and Sammy ‘Blackie’ Githae, for publicity before abandoning them to struggle for survival. The virality of those pictures caught the attention of Mr Kabu, who gifted the couple a trip to Kenya’s South Coast, Diani.

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One year later, the couple is back in the streets, with Kenyans putting Mr Kabu to task to explain just how he offered the couple a holiday package without giving them a long-lasting solution to their financial woes.

“We had only promised to offer the couple a Valentine’s Day gift, which entailed flying them to Diani. That pledge, we kept,” Mr Kabu said.  “As to whether we should have given them life-changing jobs, it wasn’t in our agreement, though, we tried helping them the much we could; our assistance to them was out of goodwill and not obligation-driven,” said Mr Kabu.

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“I, nonetheless, paid house rent for Virginia and Blackie separately for eight months; that investment was to take them up to October, 2018. Luckily, they got job offers in Bomet. Virginia was to work as a cook and Blackie a gardener at a school in the Rift Valley region. While Virginia took the offer, Blackie declined to grab it, saying he couldn’t go out of Nairobi. He, however, did not give any valid reason for his stance.

“After a while, I was told that Virginia returned to the capital city in unclear circumstances.

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“Blackie, on the other hand, kept on asking me for money all the time. I always gave him. Most of the time, he asked for cash in the range of Ksh2, 000 and Ksh3, 000 per occasion. I provided him with the amounts he asked for for almost one year, as he would show up at my office with claims of a problem or the other.

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“I gave Blackie Ksh10, 000 to start a mitumba business in Githurai, but he didn’t put up the project. He was the one who had made that suggestion. “Later, a job opportunity as a driver at Bonfire came up. I asked Blackie if he had a driver’s license, and he said ‘yes’. However, when I asked him to show it to me, he would evade that topic.

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