MAN WHO LOOKS FORWARD TO RETURN OF ARTURS
By Richard Chesos
Standard, Kenya
June 12 2006
With a faraway look, eyes blink sharply before Musau Musyoki raises
his palms to cover his mouth, perhaps an expression of disbelief.
Mr Musau Musyoki, who worked as gardener for the Artur brothers,
in a pensive mood outside the Armenians’ Runda Estate residence.
Then the 25-year-old man, who wishes the deportation of the two
alleged Armenian brothers turned out to be fictitious, tells his
story. He is not eager to discuss the saga.
Dressed in blue jeans, light green shirt and blue sandals, he does
not hide the fact that his life drastically changed for the better
since early February, when Artur Margaryan hired him as gardener at
his luxurious residence in Nairobi’s Runda estate.
“He doubled my (earlier) salary; life has been good,” he says.
“My salary is my secret. But I can tell you he paid twice what my
previous employer was giving me.”
But little can remain a secret for a man who worked for foreigners
who have dominated the Press and police investigations. The amount
quoted by police is higher than that earned by a graduate teacher.
Musyoki, who lives in the servant’s quarter, said the “owner of the
house”, who lives in Spring Valley, had employed him last August as
a caretaker.
He says he had agreed with the “owner” that any new tenant would
employ him to work in the home. The Form Four leaver, a bachelor,
says Margaryan promptly paid him in Kenya shillings every end of
month. He fears no other tenant will pay him such an amount in future.
“But that is life…the owner (of the house) will pay (me).”
And how did he learn of the deportation?
“How do you know about it yet you don’t even have a radio in the
house?” he retorted.
He is the only one left in the house after two guards from Tanzania
were deported on Saturday.
Musyoki, whose name means ‘one who returns’, wishes his employer
would eventually do that – return.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
