Drama as woman kicks out jobless brother in law for idling, eating baby’s food, throwing bash

The bother of job-hunting while living with a married city-based relative is always a delicate balancing act for many college graduates. Due to strained resources, such unwelcome stay is always characterised with tension and thinly-veiled disdain, mostly from the host’s wife, who reluctantly take in such job-seekers, but constantly itches for the slightest of provocation to kick them out.

A university graduate, surnamed Mwalo who has been living with his married cousin in Nairobi’s Embakasi estate, had first-hand experience of this sad reality last Tuesday when wife to his cousin unceremoniously threw him out of her house for being a ‘guest from hell’.

While fellow job-seekers were busy browsing the internet, flipping through dailies, including obituary pages, and pounding the tarmac in search of work, Mwalo was getting cozy on his cousin’s sofa, eating and watching movies from dawn to dusk. It was livin’ la vida loca for him!

All this was, of course, going on at the chagrin of his cousin’s wife who had tried in vain to get her husband throw him out to ‘hustle’ like other men.

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It was, however, his obsession for building muscles by secretly eating special foods meant for his host’s child, refusing to help in washing utensils, fooling around with estate girls and throwing a bash in the absence of his host that culminated in him getting thrown out rather unceremoniously.

What had begun as a three month visit ended up taking over two years, seeing as no job was coming by. What, however, irked his hosts was the fact that the graduate had given up hunting for a job and resorted to bumming around and behaving badly while at it.

“He would, for instance, pretend to be going out to ‘hustle’, only to return to watch TV and listen to music after the couple had left the house for work,” said a neighbour who requested anonymity.

When dung hits the fan

Like most hosts to job-hunting graduates are wont, Mwalo’s cousin regularly gave him pocket money to traverse the city in search of a job. Surprisingly, he took the gesture for granted and got carried away by the hospitality and began feeling at home.

“To cover his tracks, he kept reassuring the family that some job interviews were in the offing, and that some contacts were yet to call him,” revealed the source. With nothing much to do, he picked up weight-lifting as a hobby. The resulting humongous appetite for food saw him regularly raid the kitchen for left overs, Weetabix and other special diets meant for his host’s child.

But tired of hosting a grown-up couch potato, hell bent on messing up the family budget, the couple gave him an option of moving into a cheaper one-roomed house to start his own life but he declined, promising to move out two months later.

By then, he had gotten himself in the woman of the house’s bad books. She began waging ‘cold war’ with him, placing each and every move he made under the microscope.

Dung, however, hit the fan when Mwalo pushed the joke further by throwing a bash in the home when the family was away in their rural home for the weekend.

Immediately she received the information about the party, the no nonsense woman hauled him out of the door before getting him his belongings in a suitcase, asking him to go back to his rural home, even as her husband tried to defend him in vain. “He either leaves or am out of here...” she reportedly roared, leaving the job-seeker with no option but to leave.