By NIKKO TANUI

A flashy storied building in Kericho town became a theatre of the absurd when a woman started stripping in a desperate attempt to tell off her former lover who had been trailing and stalking her, begging for reconciliation.

Screamed

 “I have told you many times to leave me alone, but you don’t listen. If you don’t go away right now, I will  strip naked,” the woman reportedly screamed as she dumped her coat and blouse on the floor of the shop’s veranda.

 But whereas some of the men who rushed to the scene gleefully dared her to go ahead, women, on the other hand, begged her not to shame herself by exposing her nakedness.

 According to an eyewitness of the Tuesday noon drama, when the woman began unhooking her bra, her former flame was too scandalised to stomach the embarrassment and quickly melted away to the wild amusement of the crowd that had gathered.

The witness told this writer that as the woman was gathering the few items of clothing she had discarded, she narrated to the crowd how the man had, for a long time, been sending emissaries to her as well as following her all over the place begging her to take him back.

 “He left me for another woman but they have since fallen out. Now he wants me to take him back as if nothing happened between us. Let him go back to that woman he thought was better than me. My children and I are doing just fine without him,” the woman reportedly hissed in her local dialect.

Pressed further by the crowd who were relishing what was turning out to be a juicy story, she further revealed the man had since been fired from his last job and to compound his problems, the other woman had unceremoniously thrown him out when he could no longer put food on the table.

Nonsense

 “Kigoiman chichi nemokimuoee (this man has disturbed me enough),” the woman told the crowd.

 What angered her most, she said, was that the last time she entertained his nonsense, she had accepted the man’s pleas and accepted him back only for him to crawl back to his other woman when things started looking up for him.

“Agot ndobore rubet, ko momoche anai, Ingwo kabisa (even if he dies of hunger, I won’t care less. Let him leave me alone forever)!” she said.