Joseph Onywera Sh20 Million jackpot after his wife left him because he was poor A man whose wife abandoned him and swor...
Joseph Onywera Sh20 Million jackpot after his wife left him because he was poor
A
man whose wife abandoned him and swore never to step foot into his
house again because he was poor has won millions in sports betting and
now the wife is begging to come back.
A man has won Sh20 Million jackpot (N63m) after his wife abandoned
him because he was very poor. Now, the wife who is believed to be
married to another man is begging to come back to him.
According to The Nation,
Joseph Onywera, 62, a farmer in Kapiyo in Kano, Kisumu County, won the
colossal amount in early June from Betway Company after he correctly
predicted the outcome of 13 football matches in the English Premier
League.
The man who is addicted to gambling has refused to take back his
wife who ran away with another man after telling him to his face that
she can never come back unless he died because of his poor background
and money issues.
But hardly a month after he hit the jackpot, she came back knocking.
“I saw her come into my compound and I wondered. She had told
me to my face that she would only return after I die. So I told her to
go away since I am still alive,” said Mr Onywera.
Speaking further on the incident, the Arsenal and Gor Mahia fan
believes the woman, who is said to be married to a Tanzanian in
Isebania, must have come back just because fortune had knocked at his
door.
“Ever since she left, several incidents have happened that
would attract her attention. My mother died but she did not turn up for
her burial. My father also died and I had an accident, but she did not
bother to check on us,” said the composed gambler.
But, he has revealed he has no plans for her as he is looking
forward to marrying another woman, who, he said, stuck with him during
his days of hardship.
“I am a humble rice and tomato farmer. A certain woman who
respected and loved me when all I had was farming will be the one to
live with me in this permanent house,” he said with a tone of finality.
He has started work on a three-bedroom house as he tries to put his money into good use.
There is total transformation, almost overnight, for a man who
could not have imagined he would one day afford a car. Mr Onywere is not
only the latest millionaire in the vicinity but practically a “private
developer” as some of his village mates call him, The Nation reports.
He has bought two plots and is planning to develop an old one in the heart of the lakeside town of Kisumu.
He has also ordered a pickup truck and a canter lorry which will
help him deliver farm produce to the market as well as run other
businesses on the side. He said friends and relatives who had long
forgotten about him in his simple life have returned.
A number of people queued up in his house with all sorts of pleas,
ranging from requests for school fees to calls for him to give to a
church construction project.
“I am a good man. I have helped in several constructions in the
church and assisted a number of my relatives and friends to build good
houses and pay fees for their children,” he said.
The father of nine, who dropped out of school in Standard Three in
1967, did not jump for said he is using his head and expressed joy where
gambling has taken him today.
“This is not the first price that would make my heart stop with
joy. I started gambling over 15 years ago and although the amounts were
not as huge as this, I have gotten over the excitement,” he said.
Onywera is the latest and proud millionaire in his community and everyone now respects him.
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