In 2012, Mr Francis Mureithi,
a Kenyan living in Texas, US,
decided to build residential
apartments in Muchatha, near
Ruaka in Kiambu County, to rent
out.
“I was working double shifts
in a library in Texas while my
wife was working three different
jobs. According to our plan, the
apartments would provide us with
additional income,” he told DN2 on
phone from the US.
So Mr Mureithi started sending
about Sh200,000 to his brother
every fortnight to facilitate the
construction. To reassure him, his
brother regularly sent him pictures
of the building under construction as
well as the receipts for the building
materials such as cement and quarry
stones.
When Mr Mureithi decided to visit
his investment two years later, in
2014, he had already sunk more than
Sh10 million into the venture. But to
his utter shock and dismay, all the
money had gone down the drain.
He discovered that the photos his
brother had been sending him were
not of his apartments, but those of
an adjacent building. His own land
lay bare, with not as much as the
foundation dug.
“I would be lying if I said I wasn’t
furious. My brother dodged me for
a couple of weeks but I finally
cornered him at a relative’s house
a few weeks later. When I confronted
him, he said, ‘You mean to tell me
that you can get mad at your
own blood brother just because
of Sh10million?’” Mr Mureithi
recounts bitterly.
The distressed Mr Mureithi, who
had lived in the US for close to a
decade at the time, contemplated
suing his brother to compel him
to pay back the money after he
discovered that his brother had
instead pumped his remittances
into expanding his own matatu
business. However, his relatives
advised him against it, saying such
a move would strain relationships
within the extended family.
bullshit ati strain relationships useless
The relationship is already strained. Nikiwa na such relatives, siwezi rudi kutoka majuu. I cut ties kabisa.
The things family puts us through.
watu huogopa ati they will die alone, I say that is nonsense everyone of us dies alone anyway na nikienda I will be nothing more than a rotting heap of mzoga. Let him recover his money lazima alikua anaishi maisha ya shida sana U.S. to sacrifice for all that while the bro was here eating nyama choma and chasing tail every weekend
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Hawa watu wa diaspora pia waache ushenzi, this isn’t the first time we’re reading such a hekaya. Pesa haitambui mambo ya undugu, maafakas should start conducting their affairs in a professional manner, sio kukwama na jua kali mentality ata ukiwa majuu.
Same thing happened to a kikuyu lady here in Germany…but hers was different. She was sending money to her mom who had adviced her ati quail bizness ndio kusema Kenya. U remember when quail bizness was booming like a nonsense…eeeh hio time. Poor lady used to send 500euros every month na akilemewa 300euros…ati project iko on the works.
Her own mother would pluck pictures za Quail farming from sijui where and send her daughter pix ati Wairimo unaona maneno vire iko. An emergency ikatokea and mtoto had to go back Kenya. She had bn sending money for six months…wololo wacha afike 254 hakuna kitu kama hio when ol lady was approached she says alikuwa na shida emergency zilimtokea…ati loan sijui wot and then tells daughter wewe nimekulea tangu ukuwe mtoto hata hio pesa ule tuma haitoshi nusu ya ile pesa nilikulea nazo…ama unataka laana wairimu? Chic alinyamaza came back to Germany and cut contact with family.
Akivisit Kenya yeye ulala hotel
Sad. Just sad.
Kuna dame mwingine hapahapa Kenya. Nyinyi mnasema abroad. She came to Nairobi na akafungua branch kwa mwili yake. Yeye anaponyesha watu nyege and then sends the money ushago wafungue biashara na ingine ya kujisustain. So she sends like 500-1000 a day ndio awache kazi ya kuuza kuma. Alirudi home after two years akapata hakuna kitu watu wamefanya na hiyo doh. Ni kujienjoy tu. Na kunona.
She just committed suicide.
You struggle to do things that you had no idea you could have done and trust those closest to you with your sweat, that they may improve things. A person who has no idea how a coin has been made, has no idea how it feels like and what effort has been invested. So they take it for granted and ends a waste. Hiyo pesa afadhali hata ukatae kununua tissue ujipanguzie nayo chooni.
Ushenzi if he can steal from you he can kill you pia
Relatives fuck you the hardest
From people I know they do it themselves or parents do it on behalf.
kwanza hii swali ndio imeudhi kabisa
Emotional blackmail:mad:
Aki…and majority are the most envious,competitive pple around you.They are actually happy wen you seem to b doing badly
Sikuweza kumaliza hii story. Rekei nemwo please!!!
Mblo mbisha ya huyo msap nione kama ni dry fry material
I sunk a kings ransom on relatives trying to be a good kinsman. I went drying. Sigwesi na sigwesi. Kwanza hiring a bro or a sis is attempted suicide
COOMER SI SABUNI ANGERUDI AWEKEE BIDII .
but madhe hakuna kitu unaeza mdo .
Hii ujinga ya ‘I can’t sue my relative as it’ll strain family relations’ is what ultimately breeds criminals especially in the rural area. Mtu anaanza wizi kwenyu nyumbani lakini huwezi mpeleka kortini eti kwa sababu ni ndugu yako.