Kenyan Man Finds Sticks Instead of Misheveve in Bundle of Vegetables He Bought
- A man who went to shop for misheveve and other kienyeji vegetables for a sumptuous meal was stunned after realising that he had been hoodwinked
- Inside the bundles of vegetables were many sticks neatly tied with the real vegetables, and when he made the realisation, he was at a loss for whether to laugh or cry
- He wondered when mama mboga started being crafty cons who want to reap where they have not sown
- Netizens were also stunned at the turn of events; others wondered if the leafy ones were even safe for consumption
A man who was looking forward to a delicious meal of misheveve and other kienyeji leafy vegetables was bitterly disappointed when he discovered that he had been sold sticks.
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How did shopper discover the con game?
The man who was sampling the veggies, probably thinking of having them with the meat being sold right behind him, removed the strings holding the bundle together and the sticks fell out.
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"Can I show you what they have done to me, just look at this...it is only sticks, these are vegetables and these are the sticks; we are using virakas even in vegetables?" he asked.
Normally, it is people who eat meat that are subjected to uninspected meat from donkeys, and in some extreme cases, game meat.
It was, therefore, a surprise to most netizens that this could happen with vegetable vendors as well, and they thronged the comments section to register their surprise.
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Kenyans react to the video
Agoro Dalawa:
"Then they wonder why God doesn't bless the fruits of their labour 🙄."
Oluoch Otieno:
"Sasa mama mboga akufanyiie hivyo na kesho bado utampata hapo,what's the point?"
Empress Mumbi:
"Hio ni mixture but Nairobi walituwambia sio kwa mama zetu akh 🤣🤣🤣🤣poleeeee."
David Togom:
"Thats the medicine of middle men...go to the ground and buy, you wont feel it...because of transport ."cost
Raymon Bett:
"Money for mama mboga is stolen wakikugonga unalia kaa mtoto...grow up welcome to Kenya."
Faisol Wesonga:
"Hiyo miti umeekewa ndio uende upande kwako pia uache kununua mboga kwa streets."
Ruthy fundi wa simu:
"I bought terere nikapata weeds tupu katikati..so heartbreaking."
Arianda:
"Na mbona hujatuitisha mboga kababa Muungwana wa thikaroad 😂."
Lynne Odiwa: ·
"Mkujie mboga legit hatuna ujanja."
List of 10 trending money scams
In another story, it emerged that cases of online scams are on the rise in Kenya, and the worst thing is that the scammers are coming up with even cleverer ways to scam people.
According to details from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), cybercrime skyrocketed to 1.7 million cases in December 2023.
Llewellyn Ouya, a social media expert, shared that the latest trending scams used by fraudsters to defraud Kenyans involve technology.
Moses Kemibaro spoke to TUKO.co.ke and said the trends could escalate more because of trends in cybercrime globally.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
