Dollar lands Wesonga in trouble in Somalia

A mumias man left his rented house to join a construction company in Somali only to get into hands of Kenya Defense Forces.

Idris Wesonga left his rented house in Mumias town on November 11, 2019, in search of a job that would see him get paid in US dollars.

Wesonga and his friend Joseph Juma Odhiambo hit the road to the neighboring country uncertain of what lay ahead of them.

A friend had told him that construction workers were paid in US dollars in Somalia,” she said.

She said her husband left for Somalia to look for money to start a business. 

“We believed with the US dollars, our lives could change,” she said.

She said she learnt that her husband had been charged in a Mandera court through the Nation Newpaper.  

“My husband is a law abiding Kenyan and I am surprised that he has been accused of planning to join Al-Shabaab,” she said.

She said the charges preferred against her husband have soiled his good name and image back in Mumias.