Don’t listen to him, just marry the girl!
Bogere was frustrated. This was the second time he was bringing a girlfriend to his parents for approval and again his dad confided in him that the girl was a step sister he got from a clandestine affair.

“Do not tell your mother,” his father would say, “This girl is my daughter. You cannot marry her.”

The mother, who always liked the girls, wanted to know why the son ended his affairs so suddenly. But the boy would get a good lie to protect his parents’ marriage.

This time he went to Mbale and got a Mugisu girl. He brought her home knowing there was no way the dad would become an encumbrance.

The mother loved her instantly and could not hide her delight. When the father came home, he was heard muttering: “Not again!”

His mother heard him and called him to the bedroom. In the ensuing quarrel, the son joined them.

He discovered that the girl was also a step-sister whom the dad fathered in Mbale when he worked there. The boy lost his temper and told his mother the reason his last two affairs had been terminated.

Furious, the mother shouted: “Do not listen to him. He is not even your father. Marry the girl.”