Ann Njeri's mother, Pauline Wanjiru Njoroge, claims that she did not know her daughter was wealthy and had not seen her in over six years.
This week, Njeri made headlines after becoming entangled in a dispute with two oil corporations over ownership of a Ksh.17 billion oil shipment.
Wanjiru claims her last communication with Njeri, 55, was over the phone four months ago.
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"When necessary, we usually talk on the phone." I've been hoping she'll come to see me one day. She last visited here more than five years ago. It's been almost six years. "She says she's been very busy, and I've stopped asking her when she'll come to visit me," Wanjiru said from her modest home in Kianjege village, Kiambu County.
"I would love to meet my daughter whom you are asking me about."
While noting that her daughter, a mother of five, dropped out of school in Form One, Wanjiru stated that she occasionally helps out financially, though she was ignorant of her daughter's exact source of income.
"To answer your question on whether she supports me financially or not, I would say she helps where she can and I have nothing personal against her. It is her money and I don't even know whether she is rich or not. What I know is that she tells me she runs businesses in Dubai and Kenya, but I cannot tell exactly what she does for a living," Wanjiru, a widow, said.
"Another thing is that, you can tell whether your son or daughter is successful if he or she visits you or you visit where she or he lives, and you assess whether she is doing well in life or not. But like I told you, it is almost six years since I last saw her, so it is hard to say whether she is rich or not."
