Judiciary Speaks On Ksh23K Fine On Woman Who 'Ate' Lover's Fare
The man was prompted to escalate the matter to the court after he was left in the cold by the lady who failed to show up for the event and opted to turn off her phone.
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The Judiciary has flagged as fake a report that did rounds on social media whereby a woman was fined Ksh23,750 for scamming her boyfriend of fare of Ksh3,000.
The report had claimed that the lady was ordered by the Milimani Small Claims Court to pay her boyfriend that amount after she failed to attend a birthday party he was hosting, despite being sent the fare for the journey there.
The man was prompted to escalate the matter to the court after he was left in the cold by the lady who failed to show up for the event and opted to turn off her phone.
An image of Milimani Law Courts. /JUDICIARY KENYA
According to the unverified report, the court had found the woman guilty and directed her to pay Ksh20,000 to her boyfriend as emotional damages with an additional Ksh750 as interest accrued to the stated amount.
It further revealed WhatsApp communications between him and the lady over the matter which was used as part of the evidence in tabling the matter before the court. She was detained awaiting payment of the damages by her family.
The Judiciary, led by Chief Justice Martha Karambu Koome, termed the story as fake and misleading, adding that the case was neither heard nor determined at the Milimani Law Courts as alleged.
In Kenya, cases of lovers swindling innocent Kenyans on social media have been rampant, with many of them coming out to lament worrying tales of how they fell prey to their victims, a vice termed by many as the 'Twitter Swindler', derived from an explosive Netflix documentary dubbed The Tinder Swindler.
One of the most damning tales was reported by Nation's Leon Lidigu, which narrated how at least seven Kenyan women lost an estimated Ksh3.5 million as well as broken hearts to a 27-year-old Emmanuel Gift Masinde, who used Twitter to lure them to his dragnet.
The women fell for Masinde who showered their dreams with huge sums of borrowed money, only to wake up to a nightmare of bank loans that they struggled to repay. They described him as an elegant, smartly dressed young man who has the gift of the gab, but turned out to be a pathological, manipulative liar.
“I met and fell in love (with him) on Twitter, I was swindled out of Ksh1,220,000. I never imagined this would happen to me, but it has,” one of the victims, a 28-year-old female lawyer under the Twitter handle ‘Twitter famous’ told the journalist back in March.
A person using the Twitter app. /FILE
Masinde was revealed to have targeted liquid career women who were desperate to settle down, use high-end mobile phones and have a social media presence. His antics stretched to abroad where women living in other countries were duped to clean out their bank accounts for him one or two months after meeting their “prince charming”.
The cleverly executed swindling scheme involved faking documents and bank cheques, telling blatant lies and him associating with the law firm of a prominent politician, the office of a high-ranking government official and a former National Land Commission (NLC) senior official whom he claimed was his mother.
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