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Drama unfolded at a drinking den in Kwale after a man alleged to have died four years ago, walked in for a drink.
The incident, which brought everything to a standstill, was like a scene from a horror movie.
It is alleged Kassim Mohammed, who worked as a beautician, walked into the bar and greeted his long-term customer who upon seeing him, screamed and dashed off claiming she had seen a ghost.
“Si wewe ulikufa! Kwanini unanisalimia?” (You are supposed to be dead, why are you greeting me?),” she exclaimed. “This man used to make my nails and I was told that he died. I even contributed towards his funeral. I am not sure if it is his ghost or he is real,” explained Lydia Kavata.
Speaking to The Nairobian, Mohammed said his family believe he died after suffering an epileptic attack in 2010.
He said on the fateful day, a tourist picked him on the streets while unconscious and rushed him to hospital, but on the day he was to be discharged, a call from Dar es Salaam changed his life.
“I suffered an epileptic attack and a tourist rushed me to hospital. My family didn’t know where I was. After being discharged from hospital, I received a call for a job offer in Dar es Salaam. I boarded a bus immediately without telling anyone,” he told The Nairobian.
That is how Mohammed left his home in 2010, only to resurface four years later.
His family searched for him in all hospitals and gave up assuming he was dead.
The father of two, upon returning home last month, had to undergo a cleansing ceremony to ‘ward off’ bad spirits and says most of his family members are too scared to even talk to him because they think he is a ghost.
His wife, he says, relocated and settled with another man and now, he has no option but to look for another woman.
“I regret leaving my family. They are too scared of me. My wife relocated to Likoni where she got married. I feel bad but life has to move on. I am happy that another man agreed to take care of my children,” he said, adding, “Whenever I meet anyone I knew, I have to tell them I am not a ghost,” he said.
