Purity Wambui Maitu, a mitumba seller at Gikomba, has turned to social media to expose the struggles she has faced in her relationship with ex-lover Ambrose Mutembei.
Wambui, who remarkably paid her own dowry of Ksh 40,000, is now locked in a bitter property dispute while single-handedly raising their three children.
The property in question, located in Mwihoko, consists of a main house and six rental units, which Wambui claims to have built entirely on her own from the mitumba business.
Despite her efforts, she alleges that Mutembei has been collecting rent from the property for the past three years without contributing a single coin toward their children’s upkeep.
“I built the house 100% and paid my own bride price in the name of love. Today, he rents out the main house and all six units while I struggle to pay bills and raise the kids alone,” Wambui laments in a Facebook post.
After building the Mwihoko home where they later bitterly separated, Purity went on to construct two more homes – a luxurious house in a posh Nairobi estate and another at her rural home in Ruiri, Meru.
Her frustrations boiled over when she discovered that Mutembei had rented out the main house after denying her repeated requests for support.
Mutembei has this afternoon reported her to Mwihoko Police Post for taking photos of ‘his house.’
“This is the house I struggled to build. He locked the gate today, forgetting I bought it myself. If I cannot get justice in Kenya, I will lose, and he will lose too. We all get buried today,” she wrote.
Wambui says her relationship with Mutembei was informal, lacking any legal acknowledgement, but she stayed committed out of love and the hope of building a future together.
