The alcohol lord, who runs a chain of drinking dens popularly referred to as Wines and Spirits in Kayole and Komarock, married a Ugandan woman after the death of his wife a few years ago.
Unknown to the businessman, the new catch was a happily married woman, and he was getting himself into a web of deception so convoluted that not even the most talented scriptwriters of Mexican soaps would make it up.
The woman from Kampala had apparently struck a deal with her Ugandan husband of three years to temporarily get ‘married’ to the Nairobi tycoon as an avenue to remove their family out of poverty.
The plan worked perfectly.
“She later convinced the businessman to hire a faithful and hardworking manager from Uganda since she claimed Kenyans could not be trusted. She suggested that the manager should stay within their compound so that his movements could be monitored,” said a source close to the businessman’s family.
The ‘manager’, who was hired from Kampala, was none other than the woman’s husband.
The only problem was that the Nairobi businessman had no idea of the incredible deception going on right under his nose. Nonetheless business boomed since the Ugandan contacts got cheap alcohol from across the border.
Additionally, the Kampala pair also diverted some of the money they got from the Kenyan tycoon to secretly start their own Wines and Spirit outlets.
But the secret came out in the open on the weekend of August 24-25 when the tycoon caught the two in the act in the servants’ quarters where the ‘manager’ lived.
“The woman confessed that she had been married to the ‘manager’ for three years before meeting the tycoon. She even explained the motive of getting into a sham marriage to the rich Kenyan man,” said our source.
Despite her shocking confession, the Ugandan woman did not appear worried that she would be thrown out, perhaps because of the confidence and cash gained from having opened businesses in partnership with her real husband.
The businessman declined to comment on the matter when contacted
source: the nairobian
