Some interesting event around my neighbourhood spanning two months.
An immediate neighbour of mine left for work in Eldoret on 28th November 2013. The wife works in Nairobi and employed by a certain oil company. They have two children aged about 10 and 8 years.
Just before the husband left, he had told me that they had a conflict with mama watoto two days earlier and they were not in talking terms at the time. So he was not even escorted by his wife and therefore he had called on me to help him carry his luggage.
5th December 2013, at about 10:00PM, at night, as I was returning home from the evening activities, I noted that the gate to the neighbours compound was fully wide open and only the security lights were on. So, I imagined that the wife to the neighbour may have just driven in and was preparing to lock the gate and therefore I proceeded to mine.
The following day, I was late for work and I was not able to notice anything much in my surrounding as i sped off to the office. At midnight as I was drifting towards home I met a fully closed body 3.3 canter lorry going in the opposite direction and it almost hit my car. The driver must have been high on something, so I cursed him a million times and moved on.
Twenty minutes later, I was passing by my neighbours gate which this time it was not only wide open, but the security lights were off while internal lights were on. To me this was strange because it was coincidental that two times, the lady was just ahead of me in getting to her home just as I was doing to mine. It had never happened before!
I packed the car by the gate, got out and pressed the bell switch. I heard it buzzing inside the house but nobody came out, so I decided to enter the compound and went to the main entrance. The door was wide open and when I stepped in, the sight of an empty sitting room baffled me. I went to the kitchen cautiously...empty too, except a full stinking dustbin. Went to the bedrooms. They were very empty except one which had two dolls and a child's left foot shoe. All the wardrobes were wide open and empty too.
I switched off the internal lights and switched on the security ones, closed the doors behind me and went out of the house. I closed the gate and as I entered my car, I knew everything was wrong in that homestead and I thought of that canter vehicle, so when I packed inside my own compound I called the man. He was asleep and as he talked he was still sleepy until I asked him why he decided to move from his own house that he had built and had not bothered to inform his neighbours. The five minutes silence that followed clearly confirmed that a bombshell had been dropped. In a composed speech, the man told me that he had not moved and neither had they discussed any thing about moving from the property with his wife. He told me to take care of the house and lock the gates with a padlock, which I did, and said that in two days time (when he organised for an emergency leave of absence from work) he would be coming to Nairobi.
9th December 2013 the man came to Nairobi and we linked up at about 6:00 in the evening. We went straight to home, got the keys to his homestead which were in my custody, and we went to his house. We stepped into the sitting room and what the man saw, I could tell as I looked into his face. He leaned with his hands onto one of the walls (where the 42" television used to be) speechless with his head between the hands and looked down onto the floor. I saw a drop of tear falling down and hit the floor. After ten minutes he lifted his head up and what I saw was very infuriated face with trucks of tears from the eyes to the chicks where they dropped off. He told me to take him to the upper floors. From there, we went "in detail" to the rest of the homestead and compound and all that time he was quiet and composed.
As we closed the gate, the only thing that the man could say was "Thank you Segemia. Thank you very much. You know what Segemia, I really don't quite understand what it is that the women want from men and they (women) do not tell the men". We talked at length and eventually the man dropped a bombshell...that he was going to sell the house since after all the title deed was in his name and he was the one who bought the plot with his own money. After so much discussion, the man clearly understood that his wife may never have had any attachment to that house but his children would need it in future. Besides, the wife was probably trying to drive a point by hitting the man where it pains most. He abandoned the idea of selling the house, but told me that he would take action which he did not specify. Three days later he went to his village home to visit his parents and a week later he called me from Eldoret.
4th January 2014, the man called me from Eldoret and told me that his wife sent him a message asking him for money to pay the children's school fees, but he ignored, arguing that she should only demand school fees for the children when he is seeing them life life and in his own house. He also asked if his wife had been seen around the property and I told him no...
For all that time that I have known this man (about 20 years), right now he does not seem like himself and he needs a lot of help. Please advise.
As of now if you were that man what would you do after learning what has happened and after the new development?
Stay tuned folks, the ugly juicy part is coming!.