Give me back my sweat!
In Swedish, they say that someone is “efterlyst”, meaning “wanted”. There is also a Swedish TV program with a similar name which seeks people who have committed crimes but who are still at large. The program re-enacts the crimes suspects are alleged to have committed and at the end, real or possible photos of the suspects are circulated after which viewers are encouraged to tip police in case they know the suspects or spot someone who looks like them.
In this case, Caroline, a Kenya-Stockholmer, is being sought through Facebook by Celestine, another Kenya-Stockholmer. According to the storo, Caroline owes Celestine cash but she has apparently disappeared. She has cut off Celestine from her contacts, is not answering the phone and has deleted Celestine from her list of friends, leaving Cele with very little options.
Now, Celestine has had to send an urgent appeal via Facebook for anybody who knows the whereabouts of Caroline so KSB has decided to help. Regardless of the circumstances, disappearing aka going underground when you owe a friend cash is not the best strategy in town. People normally encounter different economic problems but if a friend has been kind enough to lend you cash or offer you favours in return for cash, the best thing to do is to pay up. If you cannot sort it out, it is better to discuss the matter instead of disappearing.
It can be understood that there is a global economic crisis and even Kenyans at home cannot put food on the table due to high unga and mafuta prices. Back in Sweden, people are struggling to pay huge bills every month. Sometimes, some bills proceed to Inkasso (a debt collecting company), you retrieve them then pay before they get to kronofogden aka krono. However, to disappear with a friend’s debt is surely a bad example.
The situation is even worse when your friend has to resort to Facebook, a social networking site, to look for you and to advertise why you are being sought. When a friend begins to advertise you negatively on FB, it shows that things have come to a dead end and one of the questions that bystanders may ask is how things could have gotten that bad. Leonard Mambo Mbotela used to have a program on Radio called Jee, huu ni ungwana? We might ask: Jee, hii ni powa kweli?
That your name is circulating on Facebook that you are wanted because you have vanished with someone else’s money? That your dignity is being compromised because of a private debt you cannot sort out after choosing to disappear?
We can only hope that the two Kenyans will soon sort themselves out otherwise for now, the challenge is for Caroline to surface and either give her part of the storo or sort her debts with Celestine.
Okoth Osewe
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LOl!!! rudisha pesa wewe.
Message to you all. Money is the source of problems. I have lost good friends and even relatives cos of money. Please dont borrow anyone money.If you have to do it just do it with money that will not pain you when he or she dont return it back to you.
Kweli huu si ungwana. I am happy FB can be used to name and ashame this thankless woman who cannot pay back what she borrowed.
Si alipe na kii-nua mgongo!It is very common in Kenya Yetu If you borrow money to a lady ,and that lady is not in a position to pay you back <She offers you this popular system of getting paid with Kii-nua mgongo!
This is absurd! For obscure reasons, cele has decided to expose the lady who owes her money, but what she is not mentioning is the amount the lady owes her.