Nicodemus Karuri recalls, painfully, how his life fell apart in 2014 when he lost both his parents due to a pneumonia outbreak and almost died. He had nothing, literally. After surviving several days eating raw mangoes, he went to an orphanage in Nakuru, Umoja Children’s Home to seek help and offer that they adopt him, for life was throwing too strong a punch at him, he has tried blocking but has kept finding himself too weak to fight back. They took him in for a few days, with the promise that they will find him another shelter. At 28 years old, he was way past the age where he could be adopted. The best they can do, they said, was connect him with someone who can at least offer them reasonable employment. Full story on title.
A middle-aged woman offered to help him, employing him as a gardener at her huge mansion. It wasn’t long before she made her first attempt, seducing him and asking him to do all kinds of sexual favors. After a month of fending off her advances, he left, and was hosted by a high school friend of his. Things weren’t rosy there either, Nicodemus recalls how they would frequently argue, mostly because he was not contributing financially because he had no job. Once, he locked him out at night, slept on a balcony and developed a chest infection. It was then clear he was not welcome anymore.
He says the thought unorthodox thought of committing suicide crossed his mind as he thought his troubles were never going to end. But, the day he left his friend’s house was also the day he met Mutua, a local businessman who saw him sitting on the roadside alone, submerged in thought. He picked him in his car and for the next six months taught him how to win. He shared with him how he has been trading in gold and reaping huge rewards and profits. He informed him about how a native doctor from Vihiga has been at the center of his unprecedented Success… Continue reading
