segemia wrote:....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...
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The message had been sent at around 5:00am in the morning according to the man. The man called me again at around 12:00pm (midday) and asked if his wife had been seen anywhere near his house. I told him that i would have to call my home and confirm, which I did. Nobody had seen the lady.
I decided to ask the man what that was all about at that time. He told me that his wife had sent him another similar message that she had sent earlier in the morning and in addition to that she had already indicated other things that needed to be bought for the children, school uniform, shoes, track suits, stockings, books etc. The man said that he did not respond.
Later in the evening the man called and told me that his wife called, but instead of ignoring the phone he pressed "reject" button.
5th January 2014, the man called me at around 8:00am in the morning and asked me if I had noticed anything or anybody within his home stead to which I said no. I asked him why. He told me that his wife's elder sister had called him at around 6:00am and told him she had heard that he had chased away her sister (the wife) and locked the house. He had told the sister in law that that was not a subject to be discussed over the phone and besides it was his business and not hers. Here the man laughed so loudly and at the end of it all he said "Segemia! I think I am now beginning to enjoy the show!"
At around 2:00pm the man called me and informed me that the elder sister had called again and told him that she wanted her sister alive and that if anything happened to her he was going to be held squarely responsible. The man told me that he told her to go and search for her sister and that she should not bother him over his wife's whereabouts. At that point in time, he had disconnected the call.
At around 7:00pm the man called me and told me that an elder brother to the wife had called him, but deliberately refused to receive the call. At midnight another message from the wife demanding school fees from him, which again he ignored.
8th January 2014, at around 10:00am in the morning, the man called me and told me that the mother in law had called him wanting to know the whereabouts of her daughter. The man had told her that he did not know, to which the mother advised him to go and report to the police station as a missing person. The man had told the mother in law that if there was any reporting that was going to be done to the authorities, it was not him who was going to do that.
At 8:00pm at night, I was in a local pub when my phone rung. The number was not familiar and I had never seen it before. I answered and heard a familiar man's voice on the other end. The man introduced himself as the father in law to my neighbour and we had a casual talk. He just wanted to know if after being friends and neighbours for all that time whether I had ever witnessed any physical confrontation or words throwing or shouting between his errant children to which I answered no. He also wanted to know when was the last time I saw her daughter to which I told him. A little bit more conversation, we were done and we disconnected the calls. I, however, wondered so much why this old man called me and who gave him my number.
At 9:00pm in the evening I tried calling my neighbour but the answer was "The number that you are trying to call has been switched off"
9th January 2014, at around mid day I tried calling the neighbour, but I got the same response, "The number that you are trying to call has been switched off". Tried calling later a couple of times, nothing did..the same message. Anxiety was building up really fast!
10th January 2014, tried calling the man, but kept receiving the same message. At 8:30pm in the evening the man called and told me that he had deliberately switched off the phone so that the in laws do not bother him as they were not giving him a break. I told him about his father in law's call previously and details of the discussions. He laughed out heartily and said that their actions pointed to the fact that they were pressurising him to go pick his family. According to the man, the in laws knew where his wife was and they wanted to create a scenario whereby the man would end up being the guilty party, so he was going to kaa ngumu!!!
To me this whole saga has already degenerated into a rat race and everybody seems to be kujivichiana, and I am being sucked in slooowly!!! If you were me what would you do under the circumstances????
Stay tuned folks.