American guka lured with lungula, love now homeless

 Albert Lee Davis [Photo: Courtesy]

A Kenyan cucu lured an American guka with promises of love and lungula, only to lose millions of shillings after selling his house and other properties in the USA.

Albert Lee Davis Jr, 74, is now being hosted by a well-wisher in Nairobi’s Kahawa West estate after Elizabeth Wanjiku Wanjohi, 65, threw him out of their home in Kimathi estate, Nanyuki in Laikipia County.

Davis Jr also lost a substantial amount of cash, has been denied access to his bank account and can’t leave the country as his passport was confiscated by Kenyan authorities who accused him of working without a permit.

Davis Jr and Wanjiku met on online dating site where both had posted different photos of their younger versions. Davis Jr was lured not only by Wanjiku’s youthfulness but also her promises of wild lovemaking and investment opportunities, whose proceeds would help him enjoy his sunset years.

Wanjiku, on the other hand, was interested in his money to prop up various business ideas. She had also told Davis Jr that her father fought for Kenya’s uhuru and for which he was jailed in Kapenguria alongside founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.

Being an African-American, the struggle for independence appealed to him as well, besides Wanjiku’s confession that no man had ‘bent her petticoat’ for 28 years! Davis Jr sold his house in Madisonville, Kentucky and came to be with the woman he met through Black Christian dating site since 2010.

This was almost 13 years after separating from his wife Delois Gray with whom they had two children - a son and daughter. Davis Jr claims he’s a scion of a rich family with interests in construction, hospitality and entertainment.

 

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He was a machine operator in the family business, but loneliness took him to the online dating site, where he met Wanjiku after a friend showed him the ropes of searching for love online.

The American claims his Kenyan lover concealed her real physical appearance by posting a younger face as her profile picture.

“We opened up to each other, sharing as much information as possible,” says Davis Jr who knew Wanjiku was a teacher in Mombasa, where she apparently had not been touched by any man since Moi was president.

“She also said she was a successful businesswoman and a devout Christian owning rental houses and that she was a mother of one son who was killed in an internal civil war,” says Davis Jr who wants Wanjiku arrested for giving false information, conning and landing him in trouble.

He claims he has been conned of more than Sh2.5 million in the two months he cohabited with Wanjiku. Some of the money, according to the American, was used to open a wines and spirits outlet and an M-Pesa shop in Nanyuki, besides footing rent for six months upfront, furnishing their house and business premises.

Davis Jr claims that before flying to Kenya, Wanjiku advised him to carry the currency in cash, being proceeds of his house and other properties he sold back in the USA.

“I was detained at the airport in Addis Ababa for six days because of the big amount of cash I was carrying,” he narrates, claiming he was released at the intervention of the American embassy in Ethiopia.

Fondly referring to his brief lover as Ciiku, Davis Jr says before he was lured to Kenya, he frequently sent her money to expand her cyber café, chicken and rabbit businesses, which the American says he doubted if they really existed because of her constant pestering for more money.

“In 2012, she told me the cyber business had collapsed as well as the chicken venture since Kenyans in the country were no longer eating chicken and had turned to rabbit meat. She suggested that we start a rabbit rearing business. I sent her money for the business and she would send me pictures of rabbits in cages,” recalls Davis Jr, adding that she, however, continued asking for more cash apparently to repay loans.

When Wanjiku asked for money to buy land on the shores of Lake Victoria going for Sh1.5 million per acre, he turned down the offer even as “Ciiku kept reminding me how investing in Kenya was cheap and that I will not regret the returns on investment.She told me she was well connected since her father and that of the Jomo Kenyatta were jailed together and were close buddies from the same tribe.”

The Nairobian was unable to reach Wanjiku on phone.

But her sister, who claimed to be a lawyer, was cagey about the matter, which she said was under investigations.

“I want to tell those who are making false allegations to proceed to court. We will meet there and they should have done that long ago. I cannot tolerate this nonsense. The matter is already in the hands of higher authorities ...even Kinoti is aware,” she claimed.

Kinoti is the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).

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