Gulf-based Househelp Dismayed As Kids Say Sister Parties With Their Upkeep Money: "Tunakufa Njaa"

• A worried mum identified as Priscillah Ogino Wesonga shared that her kids are in agony as they don't get food to eat and don't have school fees to attend school
• Priscillah shared that she left her primary schoolgoing kids with her younger sister, identified as Celine, but the latter uses all the money sent to party hard and doesn't provide for the angels
• The worried mother told TUKO.co.ke that she couldn't do anything about the situation since she sent her entire salary back home, and now her kids will be hungry and remain out of school

Priscillah Ogino Wesonga is a woman in distress; the person she had entrusted to help care for her kids has let her down badly.

Celine lives with the kids

Speaking to TUKO.co.ke, Priscillah shared that she sends her sister every coin she gets per month because the younger woman takes care of her kids, who are nine and 12 years old.

"My sister lives in Mtwapa, Mombasa county, with my kids. Our dad passed away and left us with my mum," she said.

"When I send her money, she just uses it to party and leaves my children in the house to starve. As we speak, my children are in the house because they do not have books and pens to use in school. She went away for three days and left them all alone; they are telling me that hunger will kill them in that house," she added.

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The most agonising part of the story is that end month is still far off, and the hardworking mum doesn't have any money to feed her hungry children.

"My son is in Class Six and is due to sit for the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) exams, and he has not returned to school because of money," said the worried mum.

"I have been crying and crying; I can't belive my own blood can do this to me," she added.

TUKO.co.ke reached out to Celine for her side of the story but her phone was off.

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In another story, Jedidah Wangechi was heartbroken as a friend she sent money for a potato business took off with it.

Wangechi partnered with a friend to farm potatoes, and the two enlisted Wangechi's family friend, David Waweru, to plant potatoes for them on two acres of land in Narok at a cost of KSh 200,000.

Wangechi accused Waweru of harvesting the potatoes and running away with the cash, while he insisted that he only got KSh 48,000 from the farming and would eventually repay it.

Proofreading by Mercy Nyambura Guthua, journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke