WOMEN, BEWARE OF THIS MONEY-TRAP A few minutes later, a man came and sat next to her. At a closer look, it was the same strange-yet-familiar face she had seen in a Benz near Africa Hall. The man offered her a soda and initiated a conversation. “Do you remember the stubborn boy in your primary school who was expelled for threatening to kill a teacher?” he asked. “Oh, yes,” she replied. “So you are Nyantahurira?” “Yes, but this is a different Nyantahurira. The man you are now seeing is a tycoon who is envied by so many women in this city. I can drive any car, eat any food, and buy anything else I want.” Nyamishana felt so disgusted at the man’s immediate arrogance, but pretended to still be interested in the conversation. “It’s nice meeting you again.” She shook his hand. “You are lucky that I can spare my valuable time to trail you,” he continued with the bragging. “It’s because I feel you are a good girl that deserves a good man like me. Many beautiful-looking women in this country would even be willing to kill for me to marry them, but I have chosen you.” Nyamishana held her mouth in an attempt to control herself from bursting into laughter. Checking on Ruth, she was still in the line, waiting for the transcript. “For all these years I’ve been inquiring about you and now that I’ve finally seen you, I want you to be my wife,” Nyantahurira went on to propose. “I know you may already be aware I have a wife, but I promise to treat you well as the second one. I assure you I won’t add the third.” Nyamishana cleared her throat and stammered as she fidgeted trying to forge a polite response. “Sir, I am still a young girl. Right now all I am focused on is my studies. When the time comes to think about marriage…” She was still making her point when he interjected. He couldn’t allow her to complete what she was saying. “Stop behaving like a baby, Nyamishana. I know you need money. It’s the most important thing in the world. It’s the very reason why you are studying. I will give you money you have never even dreamt about. I am…” In the meantime another drop-dead-gorgeous lady joined them on the bench. Her beauty could make any Miss Universe look like one of the chimpanzees in Mabira forest. She was so beautiful that it was easier for Nyantahurira to get tempted to remain absentmindedly staring at her shapely body than to finish the sentence. It was a pat from Nyamishana that brought him back to his senses. “Sorry, I was saying, I am sure you are not going to reject my offer because no woman has ever turned me down. I will rent you a good house, buy you a car, a fridge, plus a nice TV set and deposit lots of money on your bank account on a weekly basis. I will practically give you a new life; you will forget about that miserable life in Africa Hall.” By now Ruth had joined them and she seemed impressed by his bragging. She asked for his phone number and promised to meet him with Nyamishana for an outing later that week. Nyamishana thought it was Ruth’s trick to make them end the ugly discussion, but Ruth had her own agenda. They left him with the other gorgeous lady. As the two girls walked away, Ruth felt envy eating her inside. She wished she had been that lucky lady that just stayed with this young tycoon. But there was still a chance since she had his phone number. Ruth used to secretly befriend men, take pictures while sleeping with them and then blackmail them into giving her any amount of money she demanded. Campusers called this detoothing. She knew she had gotten her next catch. At night, as Nyamishana began to doze off, Ruth quietly slipped out of the room and went outside to make a phone-call to Nyantahurira. The two made an appointment to meet the next day. When Nyamishana overheard the name ‘Nyantahurira’ she woke up and asked her what she was doing on phone with him, but Ruth convinced her she was telling a friend about Nyantahurira’s laughable arrogance. Ruth’s friendship was very tricky and unpredictable. She was the kind that could lend you an umbrella when it is shining and pick it when the rain is beginning to fall. It wasn’t difficult for her to betray Nyamishana. So the next day, while Nyamishana was in the library reading, Ruth escaped and went for her appointment with Nyantahurira. The two went out for dinner and by the time they parted, Ruth had started seriously considering the idea of hooking him up for marriage instead of detoothing him. Unlike Nyamishana who was only twenty when she joined University, Ruth was closer to thirty than to twenty. Ruth was so desperate for a husband. She had tried becoming born-again hoping to hook up someone, but to no avail. Age was more threatening to her than terrorists. She wasn’t growing any younger. Patience pays but also pains. She was tired of waiting. She badly wanted to get married even before completing her course at the university. So she started focusing on how to win Nyantahurira’s heart. She was ready to become a second wife. On the other hand, Nyantahurira was the kind of man who could play with girls’ hearts like toys and he was not about to spare Ruth’s. The two continued to communicate and to meet behind Nyamishana’s back till the end of the year. Ruth’s performance in class was beginning to decline, but she seemed not to be worried. Her secret relationship with Nyantahurira seemed to give her all that she thought she needed at the moment. Ruth enjoyed girl-talk with a passion and so one evening while the girls were discussing how men propose, she listened and waited for her turn to boast of how a tycoon had proposed marriage to her. Sarah was the first. “We were traveling in a taxi to Entebbe when James suddenly looked at me and asked: ‘My dear, can I change your first name?’ I said ‘Yesssssssssss!” “Mine was more dramatic,” interjected Sylvia, “Paul bent on one knee, cleared his throat, stammered a bit and asked: ‘Can you become the mother of my children?’ I felt so honored.” But as soon as Ruth said she too had been proposed to, the girls shouted in chorus: “Who is that unlucky man?”… (TO BE CONTINUED) *** This excerpt was picked from the bestselling novel ‘TEARS OF MY MOTHER; The Success Story of Nyamishana, The First Female President of Uganda’, written by ROBERT BAKE TUMUHAISE (aka Mr. Inspiration). A copy goes for Shs 20,000. However, today, Saturday 22nd Nov 2014, the author is giving a 25% discount. So to get your copy call him directly on 0704666851 / 0712868424 or visit WORLD OF INSPIRATION offices at MM Plaza T33 (Luwum Street). Stay inspired and blessed like #Nyamishana!
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