{"id":122631,"date":"2025-10-06T15:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/nairobi-man-jailed-for-2-months-after-failing-to-pay-sh22000-bill-at-party\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:09:02","slug":"nairobi-man-jailed-for-2-months-after-failing-to-pay-sh22000-bill-at-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/nairobi-man-jailed-for-2-months-after-failing-to-pay-sh22000-bill-at-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Nairobi man jailed for 2 months after failing to pay Sh22,000 bill at party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 6 \u2013 A man in Nairobi will spend two months in prison or pay a fine of Ksh30,000 after failing to settle a Sh22,000 hotel bill which he allegedly incurred during a night of heavy partying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The court heard that Qurine Omondi Muteshi obtained credit by false pretense on October 3 at Vibanda Village in Upper Hill, Nairobi County.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecution, Omondi walked into a restaurant, ordered food, alcoholic drinks, and water for himself and his friends, before leaving without paying.<\/p>\n<p>When the total bill was presented, it had risen to Sh22,760.<\/p>\n<p>In mitigation before Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina, Omondi admitted he had lost control during the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had some money so I called my friends to celebrate. During the celebration I became so high and was surrounded by many ladies, each asking for drinks. Eventually, people disappeared, and I was left alone with the bill,\u201d he told the court.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he later discovered suspicious loan transactions on his phone, insisting he was shocked at how the debts accumulated.<\/p>\n<p>Pleading for leniency, Omondi said: \u201cThe court can forgive me even if it is with punishment, as I work to pay for the bill. Some of us suffer because we are still new in Nairobi. This is my fourth year in the city, but I am not yet conversant with all its corners.\u201d he told the court<\/p>\n<p>After considering his mitigation, the magistrate sentenced him to two months in prison or a fine of Sh30,000.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 6 \u2013 A man in Nairobi will spend two months in prison or pay a fine of Ksh30,000 after failing to settle a Sh22,000 hotel bill which he allegedly incurred during a night of heavy partying. The court heard that Qurine Omondi Muteshi obtained credit by false pretense on October 3 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}