This archive report was first published on 20 November 2019.
Published on November 20, 2019, a disturbing video of a granny rolling on the ground and cursing in Kalenjin dialect went viral after she lost her Sh8100 to crooks along the Bomet-Narok highway.
The granny, Elizabeth from Makimeny area in Bomet county, was approached by two individuals, a man and a woman, who asked to drop her on the way not far from home. They told her to hand over the money she had so that they could 'protect' her from the 'computer' detecting the money on the way.
Elizabeth obliged and handed over the cash, but minutes later, she realized that they had swapped it with a stash of papers resembling 'bell exercise' books cut in half for nursery school kids.
As she wailed and rolled on the ground, some passerby thronged the scene and recorded the viral video. The video has been making rounds, with majority cursing the unidentified goons.
However, this has turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Elizabeth, as some good Samaritans have been contributing to help her. Nairobi Journal has been told that some Kenyans in the US raised Sh100,000 for the granny yesterday, while others on various platforms in Bomet and Kericho County have raised and delivered almost similar amounts.
