Mukiri wrote:
I also see something like that.. However my Bible tells me a tree is judged by its fruits. He married a woman older than his mother, which might have led to the death of his own mother.. What does that tell you? Too good that he offered himself to an old woman? Without motive? Could this be the same 'goodness' with young people seeking sweet mamas and babas?
It is unfair to ascribe Mbugua's mothers death to him. She may have been shocked by his actions she obviously did not approve of it but he did not cause her death and he should not be made to feel responsible for it.
But let us go back to the beginning of this story. Mbugua was a fundi working in Wambui's home. Wambui was ailing and had been practically abandoned by her children. As Wambui told it, Mbugua noticed that there was a smell in the house, when he asked what it was Wambui informed him that she had soaked some clothes intending to wash them but had been too weak to do it and they had been lying there a couple of days. Mbugua offered to clean the clothes and later started helping her with other things around the house.
Motive? you ask my dear Mukiri. Who ever has ever fallen in love or married did not have a motive? Men who marry young beautiful girls have as their motives to have children, to have a beautiful wife to show around, to have good sex, to have a companion, to have someone to cook for them and clean the house and bring up their children. Women marry men to provide for them, to be companions, to offer them security, to have sex to be the father of their children and so on. There is nothing wrong with having a motive to be a relationship. It is the realisation of the motives you had that actually bring satisfaction in the relationship.
Assuming therefore that Mbugua had as one of his motives in marrying Wambui to be financially better off and inherit some of her wealth upon her death. If he did this by being the best husband he could have been to her in the last years of her life, by being a companion and a friend and a helper in her weakest moments, I say he has earned it, every cent of it.
Wambui's children had the chance to earn it the same way by taking care of their mother in her dying days but they bailed out on her and Mbugua stepped in. And now that the job is done they want him out and they want everything Wambui had. He was not a helper on a salary, he was her husband. For 9 years he stood by her. These were definitely not her best years but they were the years she needed somebody the most and he was there for her.
I am waiting to see how this case unfolds in court.