Drama in Kisumu streets over adulterous elder

By George Olwalo

A well-known physical fitness instructor in Kisumu narrowly escaped death recently over an affair with a married woman.

A source at the fitness centre where he works says the instructor has a history of getting romantically involved with his female trainees.

Early this year, a woman of advanced years enrolled at the centre hoping to put a brake on the ageing process.

She is the mother of many prominent people in the lakeside city and her husband is a successful businessman who runs a fleet of trucks.

The woman watched in admiration as the instructor conducted his lessons.

Younger female

After achieving a measure of fitness, she decided to pry the instructor from the younger female trainees. She resolved to use her financial muscle to beat the competition.

At the end of every training session she would drive the man in her top-of-the-range car to an expensive hotel for a ‘training post-mortem’.

Soon, the elderly woman had established a strong romantic bond with the youthful instructor. She went ahead and bought her sweetheart a saloon car.

The fabulous gift, according to a source, turned the instructor "a lunatic". He went around telling people that he had already ‘arrived’ at a tender age.

Some of his colleagues were, however, envious of his overnight success and secretly schemed how to tell on her. Stealthily they got the contact of the adulterous woman’s husband. They then reported the young instructor’s love affair with his wife to him.

When he heard what was happening, he did not waste time. He got together ten men who were to teach the randy muscleman a lesson.

Hot pursuit

On the evening of March 25, the ten mean looking men stormed the instructor’s place of work. On entering the gym hall, one of the hirelings called him but it seemed the instructor’s sixth sense warned him that all was not well.

Looking unperturbed, he made as if he was going to the fellow but before reaching him, he broke into a mad dash.

When he was safely in the street, he threw the car keys to the group of men and remarked, "If this is what is to make me die while still young, you better take the car and your woman."

Fearing that the mission was about to abort before his eyes, the woman’s husband engaged the instructor in hot pursuit.

Expensive vehicle

Meanwhile, the woman sneaked away and fled on foot, leaving her fuel guzzler behind.

The chase between instructor and tycoon went for sometimes until the tired old man abandoned the chase.

When he went back to the gym, he demanded to see his wife but realising that the wife was nowhere to be seen, he vented his anger on her expensive vehicle.

With a club, he smashed the windshield, the windows, the headlamps, the indicator lights and the rear lights.

Thereafter he asked one of his minions to drive the car bought for the instructor to his home in West Kisumu.

The woman has not been seen up to date and it is being rumoured that she is hiding at the Coast.