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| LEFT: Gospel artist Willy Paul. RIGHT: Flocan Waithera, also known as Maryanne, the baby mama |
The lady, Flocan Waithera, also known as Maryanne, came to Nairobi News offices and claimed that the singer impregnated her when she was aged 17 when the two were in a relationship.
But the gospel musician, in a swift rejoinder, denied the accusation.
According to Waithera, Willy Paul had just dropped out of form two when he met the lady in their neighbourhood and their nine-month relationship resulted in a pregnancy towards the end of 2009.
“He at first denied the pregnancy and later when I showed him the pregnancy test results he urged me to abort and I refused,” claimed the lady.
What followed, she alleges, was a bumpy relationship with instances where the two would fight over the “singer’s infidelity” among other things.
PREGNANCY TEST
By then Willy Paul had not started singing but his love for music was evident as he would attend all music concerts.
“When I went to show him the pregnancy test results, I found him with another girl and we fought until he hit my belly. I later explained to his mother who also asked me to abort,” narrated the mother.
The teenager then eloped from Mathare estate and went to stay with her father in Kangemi for a month to gather the courage to explain to her mother how she had been impregnated by a neighbour’s son.
“When I went back home, I told my mother and she said I should not abort and promised to help me raise the baby,” she narrated.
The lady was unable to complete her secondary education as in 2010 she gave birth to her daughter and got menial jobs that would help her meet her daughter’s needs.
After three years of struggling, she says Willy Paul’s mother offered to take her granddaughter to school, a proposal to which she agreed.
“She (Willy’s mother) enrolled her at a school in Mathare while staying with her and I would occasionally visit them,” she said.
The trend however took a new twist in August when the singer’s mother moved to Kahawa West and refused to disclose her new location to her grandchild’s mother.
“My daughter would come to school at Mathare in the company of another older child who lives at Mama Willy’s house then they would leave together after school,” said the mother.
FORBIDDEN
The daughter would often tell her mother that she had been asked to call another lady mum and her grandmother forbade her from calling Willy Paul’s dad.
This is in total contradiction of the singer’s single in which he describes the pain of losing a father and growing up with only a mother who struggled to raise him.
A month later, she was notified by her daughter’s class teacher that the girl had stopped attending school due to lack of school fees. When she called Willy Paul’s mother, she allegedly said the girl had been unwell.
“On Thursday last week, I decided to find my way to Kahawa West and after boarding the matatu I called Willy’s mother and told her I was on my way to see my daughter,” she said.
After hours of waiting at the stage, the musician’s mother came with her granddaughter and the young girl refused to go back with her grandmother.
The singer’s baby mama went home with her daughter but on arrival, she claims that Willy Paul came to their home demanding an explanation as to why his daughter had been moved from his mother’s house.
He was told that the young girl had refused to stay with her grandmother and had stopped going to school due to lack of school fees.
NO SON OR DAUGHTER
When Nairobi News contacted the singer on the matter, he said he had no knowledge of any existing child he bore.
“You know there are a lot of women who claim to (have) my children but the truth is that I have no son or daughter and the only children who have lived with my mother are my nephews and nieces,” said Willy Paul.
SOURCE: NairobiNews
