The last time they talked, Joseph Kori Karue told her that he did not have food to feed himself, let alone pay her son’s school fees.
This is the tale of Grace Wangari, the latest woman in Kori’s complicated love life.He asked her to be patient as he hustled for means, and she accepted like she had always done.
She believed him.It was not the first time he was saying that he did not have money anyway. He had no job so it was understandable why he was broke.
He had just moved from Kayole in Nairobi to Nakuru to try his luck in business. She was to join him once the business began to thrive.
That is how the script was supposed to go until he blocked her calls and disappeared, leaving her with a child and a Nokia 6805 flap phone as memories.
That was in 2012. She still has a picture of them together taken in Eldoret just before he went silent.He had made some money from his business and called her to visit him with his son.
In the photo, he his holding her from the back like a lover would as two bottles of Guinness and Fanta stand on the table before them.
It was the last time they were together. The next time Grace would see Joseph Kori Karue was in the dock three weeks ago following the murder of his wife Mary Wambui.
“It was Kenyatta Day when he first walked into the restaurant. He was cool, smartly dressed and minding his own business,” she recalls.
“I don’t know how it happened but I just found myself serving his table and this became a habit,” she says.In Kori, she got her first boyfriend.
A year later, this love produced a son. They never moved in together but she says they loved each other. But unknown to her, Kori had a wife he never revealed who he lived in Kayole.
SOURCE: Standard Media
