Don’t keep the change. A Nairobi hawker who was owed KSh 40 by President Uhuru Kenyatta for selling him chewing gums got his debt cleared after Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho invited him to his office at Harambee House. Hawker Dennis Wachira visited the PS at his office on Friday, December 7, where they held a discussion and the debt was paid in full glare of the cameras.
In a viral video circulating on social media, a little nervous Wachira could not believe his eyes after PS Kibicho gave him a KSh 50 note and demanded for change. “Before we even start talking I want to clear that debt of KSh 40 for the president who bought your chewing gums, and now I even want you to give me change of KSh 10,” said the PS as he reached out to his pocket to get the money from his wallet.
The poor Wachira had no option but comply with the PS and shoved out his wallet and gave out KSh 10 bob as change, the only money he had between him and poverty. After the debt was settled the PS went ahead to inquire from Wachira who were pushing him to demand his debt payment. “Since I sold the president those chewing gums, my business has not been performing well because people believe my life should be changed.
They are no longer buying my sweets,” Asked what he wanted the president to do for him, Wachira, an holder of grade D in form four exams, said he wanted any job adding that he had some health complications and his only concern was to have his life changed.
“You know now your health will not allow you to work in those drills (implying a possible job at the army or police) and there you shall have to spend at least nine months in training, I don’t think you can manage that with your health condition,” said Kibicho. Wachira came to the limelight after he demanded for payment from President Uhuru for the chewing gums he sold him during the 2017 repeat election campaigns at Barma market, Nairobi.