Nairobi Senator Johnstone Sakaja shocked a church in Roysambu when he awarded a man who was dumped by his fiancée for being broke Sh50, 000.
The jilted man is said to have been disappointed by his fiancée just days to their wedding. However, the man has since found love and another woman has accepted to marry him.
In a video that has since gone viral on social media, the Senator called upon the embattled man to join him in front of the church congregation.
Nimesikia story ambayo imenigusa. Kuna yule kijana ambaye alikuwa amekataliwa…. kuja (he says while beckoning the unidentified man)… huyu… huyu ni wetu… huyu in wetu. Kama wamekukata tumekuchukuwa na tumekukubali. Na huyu arusi yake kwanza atabebwa na gari yangu,” The Senator is captured saying in the clip.
Much to the bewilderment of the congregation, the legislator also offered to double the man’s pay every month:
“Najua ulisema (to the pastor) utampatia kazi. Na hiyo kazi mimi nitaongeza, hiyo unamlipa fifteen thousand, nitaongeza fifteen thousand juu yake kila mwezi,” He adds as the congregation goes wild in applause.
This is not the first time we here of a man being dumped for being broke. But in most cases, it always backfires on the woman as the guy always finds a way of sorting out his life.
In 2016, a 62 year old man narrated of how his wife left his broke ass for another man. But he had the final laugh as he won a cool sh 20 million from sports betting. At 62 years and with nothing much except his children to show for it, everyone – including his wife –had given up on Joseph Onywera. Except himself.
Mr Onywera believed in his spirit so much that he placed a bet with Betway gaming company with all his wealth: Ksh100. Lady Luck finally smiled at the man, who was abandoned by his wife for being too poor for life. Yet with the Ksh 100 gamble, believe it or not, Mr Onywera hit the Ksh20 million jackpot. He’s the traditional embodiment of the rags to riches tale!
Before he placed his bet, Mr Onywera’s mind was in turmoil. He said he could hear discouraging voices screaming in his head. He ignored them and gambled away his last Ksh100.
Shortly after, something verging on a miracle happened. He received a call from a woman who introduced herself as an employee of Betway, a betting company in Kenya, informing him that he was the week’s Ksh20 million jackpot winner. He could not at first believe it and almost fainted, he says.
His life started sliding after he lost his first wife, Truphena Anyango, in 1996. He returned home to take care of his children and his second wife who was just new in marriage. In 2010, he separated with his second wife due to what he termed as misunderstanding over his inability to cater for the big family’s basic needs.
He has lived a lonely life ever since in an unfenced compound with two old structures he has called home for over two decades. He is, however, not ready to accept his wife back. “I just need some peace now and I can live on my own for now. One of the sons I had with the second wife lives in a nearby centre and I will work on how to help him, but not his mother,” he said after receiving his cheque for Ksh20 million from Betway yesterday.