Wendi Waeni’s Ex-manager Set Free

Wendy Waeni and her ex-manager Joe Mwangi.

Joe Mwangi, the former manager of gymnast Wendy Waeni, has been released on sh100,000 cash bail.

Mwangi denied forgery charges labelled against him.

Detectives based at Child Protection Unit had arrested Mwangi on September 2 for impersonating a Cabinet Secretary and threatening gymnast Wendy Waeni’s mother.

The arrest came after the DCI said the former manager had forged a letter purported to have originated from a Cabinet Secretary threatening Magdalene Mbele, the gymnast mother.

Waeni and Mwangi differed after she claimed that her then-manager did not give her mother even a penny accruing from her performances.

During an interview on Citizen TV’s JKlive, Waeni accused her former manager of exploiting her talent for selfish gains, eliciting fury from a section of Kenyans.

“I’ve been performing all over the world, and right now I live in Huruma because of Joe Mwangi. I’ve performed in Rwanda, Germany, and China…and I’ve not got even a single penny. My mum is suffering right now, she sells sweets, I live in Huruma in a single-room with her.

“People are telling me that I’m rude, that I’m a brat who post things on Instagram, but I don’t have access to my social media accounts, it’s Joe Mwangi who controls them,” Waeni told Citizen TV.

Mwangi, however, hit back accusing Waeni’s mother of embezzling the funds he sent to her and misleading her daughter, accusations she denied saying Mwangi took almost everything from her daughter’s sweat.

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