CHAOS marred the construction site at Mianzini area here as people scrambled for the bundles of bank notes, which the excavators uncovered from underground.
From the underground bunker, the
excavators had retrieved wads of cash amounting to about 35m/- during
the demolition of buildings in the ongoing construction works to expand
and upgrade the Mianzini – Ikiding’a road.
The money was uncovered from the
underground chamber inside one of the houses whose walls were
demolished. The house belongs to Mr Christopher Akonaay, a farmer who
has reportedly been storing his hard earned cash in the trench on
monthly installments for the past seven years.
The livestock keeper, endowed with a
large herd of cattle, supplies milk to many families and institutions
around Arusha City and its suburbs, earning up to 1.5m/- monthly. Mr
Akonaay was away selling milk in town, when the excavators struck the
area.
The houses had previously earmarked for
demolition to pave way for the road construction project but the
residents in the area rushed to file a case in court last June,
protesting against the move.
When the court ruling came out in favour
of the government, the graders did not wait for the property owners to
file another suit, but proceeded to knock down the walls.
Mr Akonaay’s mud house with its bedrooms
strategically located along the road, was among the first buildings
pulled down. But within the bedroom, the farmer had own styled ‘safe’ in
which the 35m/- in form of red bank notes were stored, tied up in a
number of polythene bags.
As the excavators combed the bedroom
floor, the buried money came out flying much to the delight of
passers-by who elbowed each other in their rush to collect as much cash
as they could manage.
At that time the owner, Mr Akonaay,
popularly known as ‘Mmbulu,’ was busy supplying milk to his customers in
the city and by the time he got back, he was shocked to see his house
pulled down and the money gone.
“I have been depositing between
800,000/- and 1m/- in the underground hole since 2013,” he confessed.
Apparently, for the last 48 months of his secret bedroom bank, the hole
under Akonaay’s bed must have swallowed around 35m/- if not more.
“We now call him “Mabulungutu” (Mr Wads
of money)” said the neighbours who were adamant to provide their
identities lest they get to help the police should Mr Akonaay decide to
report the matter to the law enforcers.
Neighbours were also surprised that
despite having so much money, Akonaay still lived in the mud house. But
one may also be interested to know why he did not put his money in the
bank.
“I don’t trust banks, because in the
1990s when working at a government institution I opened an account which
I used to accumulate money but after leaving it dormant for 10 years,
it was frozen.”
He later opted to store money in the
house, but again a visiting relative smelled the cash and on one bright
morning he broke into the house and looted all the amount.
As the last resort, the hole under the
bedroom overlooking the road proved to be safest option for the man for
last four years until the excavators had struck ‘the bank’.
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