“We are struggling to make ends meet” Kes 100 wedding couple back to poverty after closing shop
Ann Wambui and Wilson Mutura’s lives took a new turn when photos of their simple Kes 100 wedding went viral worldwide. The couple has slipped back to penury even after well-wishers greatly assisted them in various ways.
The last time we checked Diamond Properties had given Ann and Wilson an eighth acre plot valued at half a million shillings with a Kes 320,000 greenhouse and capsicum crop in Isinya, Kajiado County.
So how come the couple is struggling to make ends meet? Well, in an interview with eDaily, Wilson revealed that they were forced to shut down the shop they had opened in Kasarani due to lack of customers and sufficient capital to run it.
“My wife and I are fine, though we are struggling to make ends meet. Money is elusive, few problems here and there. We have been forced to close the shop we’d opened in May, 2017 because of lack of customers and sufficient finances to run it. I think the physical location of the shop was not strategic. There were days when evening would reach without having sold a single commodity. End month would reach without us raising the needed rent for the premises, thus forcing us to borrow money from friends and relatives to foot the accrued bills. The money we’d injected into the business was all lost. We would make constant losses. My wife and I saw it wise to sell the business and channel the money to another business, which would make little profit. Now I have resorted to selling apples. We had no other option,” Wilson explained.
The 27 year old who is expecting to be a father in October, stated that he intends to open an electronic shop when he gets capital.
“Should I get moderately good money, I would use it as capital in putting up an electronic shop. That is a trade I love doing because the items you sell are not highly perishable like those in a shop. During the shop business, we used to dispose of the rotten, spoiled and debased commodities such as flour and other food stuff,” said Wilson.
Wilson also discredited recent reports by news outlets that he threw his wife a lavish baby shower, he explained that people mistook a normal photo shoot he had with wife for a baby shower.
“I will soon throw my wife a baby shower. The party should have been held long ago, only that I did not have money. People mistook a normal photo shoot my wife and I had for a baby shower. If I get money I sure will call you for a baby shower.”
