Mzungu demands Sh500K from lover after discovering Kenyan girl was dating another white man

By David Odongo | 8yrs ago | 4 min read

Jensen (left) says he had been told that Wanjiku brought up to seven men

Joyce Wanjiku has an attractive figure and long legs. Her smile is kind, laughter infectious. There is an unexplainable innocence glinting off her 25-year-old eyes, and that, probably, is what drew a 34-year-old Danish businessman, Bo Jensen, to start a honeyed affair with her.

It ended bitterly, and Wanjiku now blames her aunt for her failed relationship.

The two met in October 2014 on social media. They exchanged pictures on WhatsApp. The fire in their relationship had been lit and Jensen was ready to travel from cold Denmark to sunny Nairobi, and into Wanjiku’s warm bosom.

Wanjiku was unemployed, and living in her cousin’s house.

“It wasn’t right that the woman I love didn’t have her own house. I asked her to get an apartment, I paid Sh60,000 for that house,” says Jensen, a divorced father.

“It is true, I told him I didn’t have a job and within two weeks, he offered to rent an apartment for me. I felt loved; very few men can do that. We hadn’t met yet, but he was already sending me money,” Wanjiku concurs in a staccato of rapid Swahili spiced with a slightly discernible coastal accent.

Jensen says he asked Wanjiku to invite her aunt to stay with her to kill loneliness in her apartment along Thika Road and, which Jensen had tastefully furnished.

“A week after she moved to the new house, her aunt sent me a text saying Wanjiku was bringing other men to the house. I asked Wanjiku but she denied,” recalls Jensen.

If their love was a candle in the wind, then the wind by then wasn’t strong enough to kill it.

Jensen ‘forgave’ Wanjiku.

“I didn’t know that my aunt, who was living in my house, was the one feeding lies to my boyfriend. When he asked me about other men, I was shocked, and I denied it because it never happened,” says Wanjiku adding that she confronted her aunt who ‘said she has never spoken to my boyfriend’. I wonder why she could do that to me.”

But seeds of suspicion had been planted.

Between November and December, Jensen says he had been told that Wanjiku brought up to seven men who spent the night in the apartment he was paying for. A new man every week.

The candle in the wind was now flickering, and the wind was picking speed. The flame of love would die at any minute.

“I was so angry because I had forgiven her several times but she couldn’t stop bringing men to the house. I was even taking care of her sick father,” says Jensen, who ended the relationship on Christmas Day and demanded back the more than Sh500,000 he had spent on Wanjiku.

Wanjiku now blames her aunt for pouring water on their fire of love. “She did everything to ensure our relationship didn’t work,” she says gloomily adding, “Mimi sina pesa ya kumlipa. He told me to sell everything in that house and keep the money. I don’t have a job, I couldn’t live in that house so I moved to a single room in Githurai.”

But come February, Wanjiku had found new love, Ronny Thoelen, a man from Belgium.

After four months, her new man visited Kenya and posted their pictures having a good time on his Facebook page. Jensen saw them meaning Wanjiku had moved on. “He said he will get people to kill me. I haven’t gone to the police because I have no money,” says Wanjiku, claiming Jensen found a way to communicate with her new lover and peddled lies to him. The new man fled back to Belgium. Wanjiku was left cold, and alone. “I know four white men who were duped by Wanjiku, it’s my duty to warn them. That’s why I contacted her new boyfriend,” says Jensen. For Wanjiku, the dying embers of love left cold impotent ash, and a demand to pay back Sh500,000 Jensen claims to have spent on her.

“I have been heartbroken twice, in a span of seven months. I really loved Jensen,” insists Wanjiku. Jensen claims he has moved on, and found a new 28-year-old Kenyan girl. He says his new girl doesn’t ask him for money, and he will soon come to Kenya to meet her. His new love lives with her two brothers and two sisters, so she has no time for funny games.

“I will also deal with Wanjiku when I come,” he says, as we finish our phone interview with the flashy dresser with a body builder’s physique.