Mr. Haron M. Ndubi, a Kenyan lawyer, has said that he is not the author of a rebuttal titled “Esther-Timberlake Lawyer: Putting the Record Straight!” published on 8th October 2012 at KSB on the on-going saga about the status of the Timberlakes. The rebuttal, which tended to address critical questions that were pin-pointed by Kadino Ajowi, a KSB enthusiast, was brought to the attention of Mr. Ndumbi by a contact who read it at KSB.
In a terse statement sent to KSB, Mr. Ndubi said that he had read the story and that “I would like to confirm that I am NOT the so called H. Ndubi who authored the article. It’s too petty and ludicrous to possibly come from me. Please investigate the source and keep me posted. I will on my own consider legal action for reparation for personation”.
According to the lawyer, “someone is doing cheap propaganda. I hardly use the name H. Ndubi. Never done it. In any event, anyone who knows how I write and speak will tell you those words attributed to me are certainly not mine.”
Mr. Ndubi is currently the Executive Director of Haki Focus in Nairobi. His rejection of the rebuttal that tended to protect the interests of the Timberlakes, will further complicate the situation for the embattled couple which has been fending off multiple criticisms regarding their political, social, economic and family circumstances.
KSB gave the Timberlakes publicity after Timberlake claimed that his life was in danger following the couple’s flight to exile in Australia. The couple contacted KSB through Twitter and requested for help with publicization of Timberlakes’s situation.
Although the Timberlake article attracted hostile reactions from a cross section of KSB readers who thought that it was “cheap propaganda”, it was published in good faith. KSB will continue to follow the plight of the Timberlakes and report accordingly.
Okoth Osewe
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To the Timberlakes: delusions of persecution – a delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you; a complicated conspiracy is frequently imagined.
Who is now having the last laugh? I was 100% sure the signature H. Ndubi was fake. The delusional couple and its aliases/handles must be feeling the heat after being singled out for impersonating the renowned human rights lawyer, Haron Ndubi. The fools hit a wrong button this time, having thought that KSB was just one of those blogs which tolerate their nonsense. I am vindicated while whoever faked the lawyer’s name stand condemned for acting illegally. Unwarranted invectives were thrown at me for merely expressing myself following the bogus story about Esther and Quincy Timberlake. What a tangled web they weave.
Some Kenyans are very dirty indeed why are some people bothered by Ester Arunga and mr Timberlake?
The couple nedds a save haven to rest and settle hence life goes on. Mr Timberlake and his lovely wife and their sweet daughter deserves respect and kenyans of good will should pry for Autralian govt to grant them assylum .
This young couple has really suffere under Kenya govt of animals that has no respect of human rights and diginity .
These dirty Kenyans who keeps on harassing Arunga and her hubby must be reminded right now arunga has a loving husband and there is no place for them in Arungas heart . (Arunga acha pata bwana wacheni wivu na ugaindi pia na ujinga .
Hizo Vyombo ziko na Mwenyewe dugu Timberlake alone (Mezea wembe na nyege muwache! nyie Makafiri!
As a trained lawyer, Esther Arunga Timberlake ought to be aware of the legal implications behind impersonation. The rebuttal by lawyer Haron Ndubi confirms what many have said before: that Quincy Timberlake is a manipulator who uses the Internet to spread terror by building upon unfounded claims of political threats, persecution and other unimaginable happenings in his life. If he had really faced such in Kenya, these would now be a point of reference for all human rights organizations.
People seek asylum using different strategies and all I can deduce from the Timberlakes’ posts (that border upon living a good life in their imagined Australia, and threats on their lives), is a desperate cry; they have reached a cul-de-sac. Too bad they became careless by posting their dirty linen online, thereby losing validity in their quest for a better life. Having acquired the habit of posting ostentatious photos and stories which they manufacture to con their way around, the Kenyan public lost faith in them and ceased sympathizing with their cause. Moreover, the well-publicized drama that accompanied the genesis of their love is only reminiscent of Beauty and the Beast fairy tale.
Quincy was long judged negatively considering his alleged shady background and Esther, due to her turnaround from being a TV personality, to an online squeaker seeking justification for all her (wo)man-made woes. It does not matter that she’s been criticized and praised equally; she remains defiant: rebel without a cause. As radio presenter Carole Mutoko mentioned in 2010, it is the media that Esther loves which will also bring her down.
Acting rich to entice love
Updated Monday, October 22 2012
That tastefully furnished house where you meet your boyfriend could — like his fancy clothes — be borrowed; Eric Lungai and Geoffrey Korio warn women. When it comes to ‘tuning’ a woman, most men are guilty of what the police would call ‘obtaining by false pretenses’.
Those bereft of what the young would call lyrics employ ‘cool’ possessions such as cars, iPads, computers, mansions and clothes to entice the women they love. But that is often just half of the story. On a busy Friday afternoon, with a slight drizzle caressing the earth, Andy is busy in Job’s house at Kangemi fixing a few things here and there.
He removes some of Job’s possessions and furnishes the double-room with other items — all borrowed. There are sub-hoofers, a laptop and several movies that he has never watched and has no interest of watching. To finish his furnishing in style, he places a few potted plants here and there to make the room look romantic and classy.
All this is because there is this city girl that he is dying to bring ‘home’ after a series of coffee dates in town. He wants to make a good impression, that he is already well established and settled in his own tastefully furnished house, because so far, she has not yielded to his charms.
From their few meetings in town, he has gathered that she is a posh girl and he wouldn’t dare take her to his cobwebbed bachelor’s pad in the same estate.
Lodgings
This is the agony that many broke young men undergo when lady-luck sends a classy lass in their direction yet they have neither a decent house nor money of their own.
Taking their new catch to a lodging only works for drunken one-night stands. Unfortunately, especially for the women who play hard to get and like the best things in life, suggesting the lodgings behind the bar is the quickest way of getting dumped. “Men fear that if a woman visits and finds that their house is seedy and cheap, she will never come back, if at all she agrees to spend the night,” says Andy knowingly.
First impressions are paramount, he adds: “The way you handle a woman in the initial stages counts. You must show some class, even if it means borrowing or stealing it. It adds value as opposed to pouring out your life story, flaws and all. That only works in the movies.”
Such broke guys, therefore, fool women that they are doing well, at the expense of basic necessities. They take their dates to expensive hotels using money meant for paying rent and then squeeze into matatus after paying for a taxi for their dates with a flourish.
Landlord
What follows is a month of agony — evading the landlord, no food, no bus fare to town and borrowing money from close friends without hopes of paying promptly. Of course, no more dates are arranged until the end of the month, even if the smitten lass keeps texting ‘when are we meeting again?’ from morning to sunset. Hakuna pesa — there is no money!
Not that it matters because by then, the men will have achieved what they wanted.
Sex
Alex, for instance, is employed as a motorcycle taxi rider, but he always lies to women that he owns the bike. He begins by offering the women that he fancies free rides and then gradually tops it up with lunch or dinner. “Sometimes you have to disguise who and what you are. It is the only way to get some women,” he says. “Most women hate strugglers and you have to act big if you want them falling at your feet.”
Night
But acting big has its challenges. For the guy who borrows a friend’s room in the city, a problem arises when she decides to spend the night. In a typical woman’s manner, it is never stated. She just feels at home, gets busy in the kitchen and curls up on the sofa without giving any indication that she wants to go.
So the man has to convince the other five or six bachelors to get scarce and sleep elsewhere — perhaps in a pub, never mind that it is them who pay the rent for that crib.
More embarrassing is that sometimes, the girl feels so at home that she makes an impromptu visit the next weekend, only to find a whole different setup all together, with a different character entertaining a different woman in what she thought was ‘her’ house.
Not that it matters. By that time, the lass is hooked and depending on the scale of the relationship, chances are that she might even come to terms and live with the fact that her man is broke. And at this point, he could, for instance, lie that he was fired, or that he guaranteed a loan for a colleague who went overseas without paying only for the bank to come calling with auctioneers.
Strangely, that still pays dividends, with the smitten women enfolding the liar in her arms and cooing, “Oh, you poor darling… Don’t worry, we shall get over this together!”
Swaleh — a gardener at a rich family estate — affirms this argument, saying, “Every girl is always swept off her feet with the exterior of the man rather than the genuine man. The place where you stay in particular really matters, even if it is all a lie.
“Whenever my boss and his family are away, for instance, I sometimes sneak women into that opulently furnished mansion by posing as a nephew to the big man,” he confesses.
“The truth is that when you take a woman for date in Muthaiga or Lavington, they never fail to turn up. In fact, they get there even before the agreed time. Before you are done with the shower, the watchman, who must be part of the game, comes calling to say there is someone at the gate who needs to see you.”
Swaleh takes advantage of his boss’ absence to take her to any part of the house and exposing her to the opulence at his disposal, always careful to cover his footprints, though.
Borrowed dress
“After such a treat, most women die to come back. But I always remind them never to visit without notice lest they bump into my ‘uncle’ who is very fierce,” says Swaleh with a chuckle. Not that it is only men who are guilty of pretending to be who they are not.
Many broke women equally borrow clothes, handbags, belts, jewellery and perfume on their first dates, especially if the men who are wooing them appear sophisticated and loaded. Many men have gone through the embarrassment of bumping into their girlfriend’s best friend wearing a dress they bought for their chicks.
Other women pretend to be studying at university or in colleges or to have just come back from ‘abroad’ when in truth they have never stepped inside a lecture hall or ventured 100km beyond the city. In this class are part time prostitutes who pretend to be ‘beauticians’ who own personal salons in town or run boutiques selling clothes and handbags imported from Dubai.
If their unsuspecting catches never wonder why the ‘successful’ businesswomen never buys them a drink, they never question it until she sends a text one night, saying, “Honey, can you urgently M-pesa me Sh3,000 for rent? I will pay you next week.”
Silly Esther Arunga and Quincy Wazimba Fizzdogg aka conman aka Timberlake na kadhalika. Stop feeding Kenyans with your wet dreams of living good while we know you are either suffering in Kayole or Dubai.If in Australia, then it’s much worse.Spilling your beans on the Internet will not get you asylum because nobody is interested in harming your lives. John Githongo and Miguna Miguna are more heroes than you two would ever dream of in 1000 years, yet they are in Kenyan fighting for what they believe in. They are not running around the Internet with fake stories.When you have had enough of this nonsense, come back home to Kenya and contribute to development instead of living a life of lies. Incidentally, there is no Lawyer in Australian registry called Esther Arunga Timberlake.How come you did not reply the real Haron Ndubi when he sent a statement disowning you? Wajinga nyinyi.
Esther, you claim to be a soliciter in New South Wales.Here’s the link to search for all lawyers and apparently your name reads NADA-Nothing –
http://www.lawsociety.com.au/community/findingalawyer/findalawyersearch/index.htm
Choose your pill and swallow your pride!