Guard offers Sh 50 ‘lodge’ for quickie at building site

By HUDSON GUMBIHI

A savvy night guard of a building under construction in Kayole has turned it into a brothel.

‘Sexually starved’ men who cannot afford lodging fees are paying the watchman a “small fee” to use rooms in the storey apartment in the sprawling estate where prostitution is rampant.

The Nairobian has learnt clients pay the watchman as little as Sh50 and the building has been nicknamed ‘Kwa Maasai’.

Apparently, the ‘clients’ are given a four-inch mattress, although there is no electricity or water and one is not to take more than an hour because of ‘demand’.

“There is usually movement on the stairs and corridors as couples enter and leave. He uses a torch to lead a client into an empty room because the place is dark,” a man, whose real identity we hide, told The Nairobian.

The married man is a regular guest at the apartment. He picks one of the prostitutes who line themselves outside two of the popular nightclubs.

“I am relieved after a good moment at Kwa Maasai. You know my wife has taken long travelling back from home,” said the man whom we will call Julius.

Julius said a “single shot” costs Sh200 adding that there is privacy since doors have been fixed in all the rooms.

“I wanted more but I did not have money, I only had 300 shillings, paying Maasai 50 shillings then I was left with another 50 shillings to buy supper,” he told The Nairobian.

Julius said one has to pay in advance for both services.

“Maasai has to be paid first and then the woman because some cause trouble if not paid after the service,” he added.

 In May, a man was killed near Kwa Maasai following a tussle with other men over a woman.

The victim, a butchery attendant from Tanzania, had allegedly tried sleeping with the “hottest prostitute” when he was stabbed to death by a gang eyeing her.

Kayole police boss Samuel Mukindia claimed the man’s accomplices in crime killed him.