No one really seems to know because very little was known about her. After she arrived from Kenya, the 30 year old sister was literally kept in isolation by her Kenyan cousin who masterminded her trip to Sweden to look for greener pastures. Her trip was wired around a tourist visa and according to information she was fed, she would be able to transform herself into a student at Stockholm University after her arrival then later, slip into the system to begin a new life.
An insider who has eventually brought the storo to KSB said that Wilkister needed some kind of guarantees before she could sell her property in Kenya, quit her Secretarial job, organize a mammoth fund raising and secure a bank loan to finance a project that would lead to an improvement of her living standard. Once “things worked out”, she would be known as a “Diaspora Kenyan” who would only be returning to Kenya “now and then” as a tourist.
Not even her long standing relationship with Babu, her boyfriend, could stop her from pursuing her Diaspora dreams. She broke the relationship against Babu’s will. Love took second place to Diaspora ambitions. Somehow, she was buoyed by her family’s attitude which had it that the opportunity that had presented itself comes only once in a life-time.
Unlike a boyfriend that could easily be fixed, an opportunity to settle overseas might only come once in a life-time. After all, she was flying abroad and with her charming beauty, she would soon land a Jungu boyfriend because, according to popular whispers, Jungu guys were actually dying for African babes who were reportedly in short supply in Sweden.
With one member of the family settled in Sweden, the rest would simply be “air-lifted” at different intervals to start new lives. In fact, a line-up of who would follow was quickly drawn up as final plans of her historic flight were also concluded. Once she “settled down”, her unemployed sister, Christine, would follow to open the way for her teenie brother Ken. When the big day of departure came, almost the whole clan escorted her to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport where she eventually boarded a plane to Stockholm city, arriving on a sunny summer morning.
She was picked up at the airport by her good cousin who welcomed her home. During the first two months, she was taken through all the necessary routines, ranging from shopping at the supermarket, doing the laundry, adjusting to the dressing mode (she was not so much into tights but had to adopt) to meeting new friends and learning some basic Swedish words. In the process, she was warned about “too much contact” with Kenyans in Stockholm because, among other malpractices, “they could sell her” to police and get her deported, a revelation that scared her because she had sacrificed everything (including absconding from a Bank loan) to travel to Sweden.
After six months, Wilkister began to experience difficulties as she made new discoveries. She could not study at University because she had no “student visa”. Her three month tourist visa had in fact expired and, in practical terms, this meant she could be deported to Kenya any time if something happened and she came in contact with police. She had become “an illegal alien”. The dream job she had hoped for had not come by because she had no Residence or Work permit. Cash she had arrived with had dried up and now, she depended on her cousin for whatever pocket money.
Although she was extremely active in Kenya, she had been reduced to sitting in the house playing the maid, watching TV to kill idleness or roaming around the local shopping center admiring stuff she could not buy.
The most frustrating aspect of her new life was that her cousin did not seem to have a plan of how she could sort herself out. The Jungu boyfriend she had heard about had not yet arrived and as the situation became desperate, she began to open up to the only Kenyan she had come to know well – Chris Mbweke – her cousin’s boyfriend. This was her mistake number one.
Another Juliet Kavinga?
When her cousin learnt that she had been opening up to Chris, she went bananas. The revelation developed a lot of tension between the cousin and the boyfriend before the two split up when the cousin accused the boyfriend of being interested in Wilkister. It was a terrible moment for Wilkister because despite her denials, the cousin insisted that she had betrayed her.
“If you had problems, you could have told me. Why did you have to speak to my boyfriend and destroy our relationship?”, the cousin asked in a moment of rage. The truth is that Wilkister was much cuter than her cousin and it was natural if the cousin was feeling intimidated.
Chris knows how to play his game. Once he realized that Wilkister was in crisis with her cousin, he began to chip in by posing as an advisor to her. He told her not to be her cousin’s prisoner and that he would help her make Mapepe if that is what it took to rescue her from her cousin’s control.
Wilkister had come to understand the dynamics of Mapepe and when Chris began to pose as a viable alternative who could help sort her out, she began to vibrate in his direction. Eventually, she split with her cousin when Chris offered to accommodate her on grounds that he could not stand by and watch her suffer because of a dictatorial cousin who was treating her like a teenager when she ought to have been living a free life in Stockholm city.
One day, Wilkister’s cousin returned from work and found that she had left with her belongings. The first suspect was Chris but when she called to find out, Chris told her that the chick had landed a Jungu boyfriend and moved in. Wilkister was a young girl looking for a solution to her problems and when Chris opened up a way, she quietly packed her belongings and moved in. She understood that this was a single Kenyan dude and she did not hesitate to open the goods for consumption as the new relationship also became “top secret”.
Now the story has been brought to KSB because five months after Wilkister allegedly moved in with Chris, she has not been seen. Chris has insisted that she hooked up with a Jungu boyfriend whom he doesn’t know while her cousin believes Chris has something to do with her disappearance. Some rumours say that the relationship between Wilkister and Chris also went sour and that Chris called police who deported her but the cousin has said that the girl has not been seen in Kenya either.
Now, there is total confusion as to the whereabouts of Wilkister and an alarm has been raised for anybody with any information to come forward and help. The family is worried that something nasty may have happened to the girl and is appealing for help. Sam Pippo are worried that the case of Wilkister resembles that of Juliet Kavinga, a Kenyan lady who was murdered in Stockholm when she was seven months pregnant. Surely, what did happen to Wilkister after her arrival in turbulent Kenya-Stockholm?
Okoth Osewe
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I buy the idea of Wilkister moving in with a Jungu and lying low until her mapepe are in order. She definitely got scared of her cousin and didn’t want to chance dating Chris despite his interest in helping her. She will resurface ballooned and more secure.
Radar scam case ruling draws mixed reaction
By The guardian reporter
22nd December 2010EmailPrintComments Some dismiss the judgment as proof of double standards by foreign international organisations
Picketers outside the London Court yesterday.There has been mixed reaction – but mainly negative – to yesterday’s decision by a British court to fine a British defence contractor linked to the sale of a radar system to Tanzania.
A number of senior public officials were implicated in the controversial deal which has been at the centre of raging public debate for years now.
Most people interviewed by this paper yesterday expressed dismay, anger and frustration over the ruling, saying what Tanzanians had expected was to see people associated with the shady deal appearing before courts of law to answer charges against them.
Some said the ruling was clear proof of double standards by foreign international organisations which keep lecturing African countries on the virtues of good governance, transparency and accountability for African nations while acting to the contrary. However, a few voices were of the view that the UK court had played its part and it was upon those aggrieved by the ruling to seek justice elsewhere.
In the ruling, BAE Systems has been fined £500,000 for failing to keep proper records of payments it made to an adviser in Tanzania – in a radar purchase scandal that involved high-profile government figures in Tanzania’s third-phase (Benjamin Mkapa) government.
The UK defence contracting company paid £7.7m to two firms controlled by businessman Shailesh Vithlani ahead of winning a £28m Tanzanian military radar contract.
The ruling by a judge at Southwark Crown Court came after BAE had already agreed a deal with the UK government’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO).
Under the agreement struck between the SFO and BAE, the company would deduct the fine from the £30m it had offered to the people of Tanzania to settle the case.
Presiding Judge David Bean said he was under pressure to keep the court fine to a minimum, elaborating: “The structure of this settlement agreement places moral pressure on the court to keep the fine to a minimum so that the reparation is kept at a maximum.”
He criticised another part of the deal which he said gave any member of BAE Systems group “blanket immunity for all offences committed in the past, whether disclosed or not”.
He said the agreement was loosely and hastily drafted, adding: “Today’s judgment concludes and draws a line under this historical matter. The company accepts the decision of the court and will abide by it,” BAE said in a statement.
Contacted for comment, fiery Simanjiro legislator Christopher ole Sendeka said it was sad that the ruling by the UK court “has fallen awfully short of exposing high-profile government personalities involved in the controversial radar deal”.
He said Tanzanians were dying to know the people involved in the deal and thereafter see “appropriate” legal measures being taken against them.
“Instead of exposing the persons involved, the court merely fined the UK army company. In my opinion, the ruling was aimed at safeguarding the status of the few untouchable people in the government and leadership circles,” said the MP.
He recommended that African leaders learn from the radar case ruling and refrain from entering into agreements with “corrupt and non-transparent” international companies.
He blamed foreign and international organisations for practising double standards, saying they preach transparency and accountability to African nations while at the same time supporting corrupt deals.
“We have seen some of these organisations championing corrupt dealings and readily shouldering the burden of paying fines in order to hide evils committed by high-ranking government personalities,” Sendeka pointed out.
All that Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau Director General Dr Edward Hoseah would say when contacted for comment yesterday was: “I am in a situation where I cannot talk with anybody, please.”
Former Attorney General Andrew Chenge, one of the people suspected to be behind the controversial radar purchase deal, said: “I am now in Bariadi (his Shinyanga Region constituency) discussing issues with my electorate.”
“I cannot say anything on the ruling for now because I have neither seen nor read it…I must understand the context of the ruling before making any comments,” he added, promising to give his stand after going through the ruling.
The probe’s conclusion leaves BAE free to focus on dealing with an age of austerity in defence spending at home and abroad, according to Reuters.
The fine follows an enquiry into a 28 million pound deal to sell radar systems to Tanzania for use at Dar es Salaam airport, the biggest and busiest in the country.
“The residue of the agreed 30 million pounds will be paid by BAE to the people of Tanzania by a mechanism yet to be agreed,” an SFO spokesman told Reuters.
The court had been expected to sentence BAE on Monday but Justice Bean said he could not sentence the company without hearing more evidence.
Bean wanted to know what payments of around 8 million pounds – made to companies controlled by Tanzanian businessman Shailesh Vithlani between January 2000 and December 2005 – were used for before deciding on the fine.
“The victims of this way of obtaining business, if I have correctly analysed it, are not the people of the UK, but the people of Tanzania,” said the judge in his sentencing notes.
“The airport at Dar es Salaam could no doubt have had a new radar system for a good deal less than $40million if $12million had not been paid to Vithlani,” he added.
The judge explained that BAE now had higher ethical standards than in the past after criticisms made by Lord Woolf, the former Lord Chief Justice, in a 2008 review of its business ethics. “In the decade since the conduct referred to in this settlement occurred, the company has systematically enhanced its compliance policies,” BAE said.
Justice Bean said BAE’s plea deal with the SFO had been hastily drafted and he could not “sentence (BAE) for an offence which the prosecution failed to charge”, such as false accounting or conspiracy to corrupt.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
I know who brought this story here, the same person who should be responsible for trying to destroy the life of this young girl. She is now on safe hands and I hope the family in Kenya reads this blog. There is nothing to worry about because she has not disapperaed. She is going on with her life and shame on the cousin.
This lady needs a break after what she has been going through. When will Kenyans in Stockholm stop misleading Kenyans back home about green pastures in Europe? If you are in Kenya, dont ever quit your job eti unakuja ulayani.
I have been thinking that this girl returned to kenya. If she is still around, I wish her good luck.
I have been thinking that this girl returned to kenya. If she is still around, I wish her good luck.
I surpport u badaye. pls pls dnt lie to guys at home, tell them the truth. I know sam pipo who takes loan here only to show off at home giving the impression that they are doing very well in europe.tell the truth and the truth will set u free.
This lady needs a break after what she has been going through. When will Kenyans in Stockholm stop misleading Kenyans back home about green pastures in Europe? If you are in Kenya, dont ever quit your job eti unakuja ulayani.
I surpport u badaye. pls pls dnt lie to guys at home, tell them the truth. I know sam pipo who takes loan here only to show off at home giving the impression that they are doing very well in europe.tell the truth and the truth will set u free.
She’s hot!