

She says she suspects her then ‘sponsor’ had gotten another younger lover and began avoiding her. Millicent*31, who is now married confesses of being among the women who have used this trick to con stingy boyfriends and ‘sponsors’ whom they dated back in college. The money was apparently used to fund a weekend treat for herself and her buddies in Mombasa. However, the annoying bit about it is that he discovered later through a friend that she wasn’t pregnant.

I gave her my Sh20,000 savings and asked to go and remove it,” he says.Įven though he doesn’t approve of abortion, he says he had to do it because the circumstances called for it. I was so terrified that my worst fears had come to pass, yet I didn’t love her. “So confident was the lady that she boldly told me to decide whether I was ready to marry her and be a father or pay a ‘termination fee’. She claimed she can’t go to a dingy backstreet clinic to get infections or die while procuring an abortion,” narrates the 40-year-old self-employed graphics designer.īett says he was forced to pay dearly for the sin of partaking in the forbidden fruit with a random friend-with-benefits girl. I tried telling her I know a place where it would only cost her Sh5,000, but she told me off. “She whined, complaining that she needs Sh20,000 and nothing less. In a certain Festus’s case, he paid through the nose. Some men, like Moseti, fear that the women can die while at it, landing them in trouble with authorities, seeing as it’s illegal. Knowing this loophole too well, women are milking it dry. Others consider abortion a ‘womanly’ thing whose gory details they wouldn’t want to be bothered with. Moseti knew he had been conned when the woman was unable to prove that indeed she had procured an abortion.Īpparently, one of the reasons why men easily get conned through this method is because they dread accompanying such women to clinics for tests or abortions. Even though he isn’t sure if it was true, he confesses that he had been having relations with the lady without protection and ending up with a child with a woman he wasn’t planning to marry nor had the money to co-parent with was out of the question.
