Kenyan MP Returns to India to Repay Greengrocer’s 30-Year-old Debt of Sh300
A Kenyan Member of Parliament this week traveled to India to settle a 30-year-old debt of Rs200 (about Sh300) owed to a greengrocer.
Nyaribari Chache MP Richard Tong’i returned to the Asian country to repay the Indian greengrocer, who sold him vegetables on credit about three decades ago.
MP Tong'i accumulated the debt while studying in India between 1985 and 1989. The politician was taking management studies at a local college in Aurangabad, a city in the state of Maharashtra.
During the period, Tong'i made friends with Kashinath Gawli, who operated a grocery at Wankhedenagar locality where the MP resided.
“I could not believe my eyes,” Gawli told India Today after the MP's visit.
Tong’i visited the septuagenarian alongside his wife Michelle.
“As a student in Aurangabad, I was at my lowest point, when these people (Gawlis) helped me. Then I thought that someday, I will come back and (re)pay. I want to say thank you. This is so emotional for me,” a teary MP Tong'i said.
“God bless the old man (Gawli) and his children. They were wonderful to me. They wanted to take me to a hotel for a meal but I insisted that we should eat at their house."
Tong'i's wife Michelle said: "Richard had mentioned the Gawli family many times and I am happy to meet them now. There are many good people in this country."
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That's a good deed from this…
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That's a good deed from this mpig thou this mpigs have been stealing money from kenyans by adding them salaries which is illegal so i will ask him if he owed this indians 5000$ angerundisha????Anyway let anybody who owes anybody return the share especially the many diaspora who were educated in our public urniversitys n disappeared never to repay the cash yet they keep yapping gava is corrupt so as you state the gava is corrupt b counting yrself too juu u have stollen public monies?
I hope it's KShs. 300,000 he…
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I hope it's KShs. 300,000 he Paid this Generous family. I would (do the same) if I was an MP earning So much, Traveling So distance, and Took so long (to Repay). But don't be Surprised because some people are a Bitch (for even though they can afford a Repayment of 10 to 100fold), they cant do Shit (because of their Failure to think Big, do the Maths, and Return a 10 Big, Bigger or even BIGGEST favor).
They're many good people on…
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They're many good people on earth. May Allah bless them all....Ameen!
An MP with a conscience…
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An MP with a conscience. That's good, lakini how much would that be worth in today's money? The real blessing is to the Indian who helped him without singing it from the rooftops.
@mkenyahalisi issues with…
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@mkenyahalisi issues with diaspora people? you stole from the states as well. Stop your lies because you wish trump would let you back.
Bullshit news!!
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Bullshit news!!
@Zachary Owino from kisumu…
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@Zachary Owino from kisumu am very clean my bratha!It shows ur one of those dudes who disappeared with urniversity helbs money.Rudisha ndio many of those bin supported have a chance otherwise Zip it n count yrself as corrupt.
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