Late Tecra Mungai’s mother told the courts that her boyfriend Omar Lali was paid at least one million within five months .
The Keroche Breweries CEO Tabitha Karanja went ahead to the stand to narrate what she knew over the controversial relationship between her daughter Tecra Muigai and Lamu lover Omar Lali.
The mother also noted that as a parent and together as the family, they did not approve the relationship that was mounted with huge age difference .
“As a mother, I was shocked when I saw the photographs. I attempted to talk to her on phone and since we could not agree, her father and I opted to visit her residence in Naivasha,” she said.
“It was a Monday. The guards manning the entrance denied us access to her compound. Later, she called and arranged a meeting at Lake Naivasha County Club.”
Tecra Mungai, then was working as the the strategy and innovation director at Keroche. Her mother told the court that she, Tecra is the one who funded the boyfriend, instead of the reverse.
Tecra’s Personal Assistant Sarita Ikenye produced documents supporting the mother’s accounts. The documents listed transactions to Omar through M-Pesa and the bank account.
“Tecra used to direct me to send money to Mr. Lali and her driver Mr. Eric Cheruiyot,” she said.
Asked by prosecuting counsel Peter Muia whether she knew what the money sent to Lali was for, Ms. Ikenye said, “She did not tell me the reason for transmitting the huge sums of money to Lali.”
The least amount Ms. Ikenye sent to Omar between September 16, 2019, and April 8, 2020, was Sh5,000. The amounts significantly increased to Sh45,000 on March 7, 2020.
The PA added that she would sometimes send money to Omar twice a day.
Another witness accounted that Cheruiyot, Tecra’s driver, intervened on many occasions in disputes between the two.
“Most of the arguments were on why Omar was not listening to her or why he did not want anybody around her,” he said.
“She went on to tell me that a week or two before, they had been on a trip to Tanzania, where Omar got into a terrible argument with her brother that almost led into a fight. The working relationship with the driver changed. I would add that all her relationships and friends changed when he came into her life.”
Omar skipped the inquest and was not represented at the hearing.
