Popular comedian Timothy Kimani alias Njugush has recounted instances as a young boy in which he was punished by his mother for being troublesome.
In his new book titled “Whispers from My Childhood”, Njugush says his mother whom he describes as “strict” would always hand him a thorough beating whenever he made a mistake.
Although, he says, he was informed about it years later, the content creator says in one of the most bizarre instances he killed her mother’s brood of chicks.
“My mother told me that before the birth of Kadugu (younger brother), I strangled her entire brood of chicks,” he reveals.
Without revealing more details about what prompted him to commit the act, he points out that this happened as his mother exchanged pleasantries over a cup of tea with a church member who had visited them.
“As the norm was, the mother had set rules on what we were to do whenever a guest was around. One of those rules was that I was supposed to give adults space to discuss adult matters and maybe find something to do outside, say, play,” he narrates.
“So I walked out. We had a chicken that had just hatched chicks. Eight of them. Angrily, I went to the coop and started picking the chicks one after the other while strangling them,” he states.
As if this was not enough, he says after this, he threw them right inside the house aiming at the table where the tea was.
“Mother tells me she could not wait for the guest to leave. She went after me and gave me the mother of all beatings,” says Njugush.
“It must have been lit that day,” he adds.
In this book, the mother describes him as a boy who would always want to be noticed wherever he was.
“When he did not get the attention, he felt it was not his place. I knew he wanted to be famous,” she says.
In another memorable encounter, Njugush says he once led a gang of two to a neighbour’s farm where they fell banana trees.
On that day, he says he had gone with his brother and cousin to the forest to show them his new skills in felling trees which he acquired from a village feller.
Armed with a hacksaw, Njugush said as they walked, they met a child (Kanyiri) from the neighbourhood whom they decided to join before invading the boy's grandmother’s farm.
At the farm, he explains that he fell down the banana trees one after the other until late in the evening when they felt it was time to postpone the exercise until the following day.
“That evening, Kanyiri's grandmother came to visit. We were having tea, and the tea suddenly became tasteless upon seeing her. She did not even waste time with small talk; she shot straight to reporting how we had vandalized her farm,” he states.
“That evening, we saw what my people call "Kanyoni wa Ng'ethe."
"Little brother and I received thorough flogging in turns, and then, just as a reminder that I was never to mislead Kadugu again, Mother gave me an extra beating,” he adds.
