At 62 years and with nothing much except his children to show for it, everyone – including his wife –
had given up on Joseph Onywera. Except himself.
His wife who had left him due to their life of penury has now made a U-turn when she found out the same man won a N63m jackpot.
The man, Joseph Onywera, 62, a farmer from Kenya won the staggering sum early June from Betway Company after he correctly predicted the outcome of 13 football matches in the English Premier League, The Nation reports.
The woman had told him she’d never come back and had run off with another man because he was broke, but in no time she came back begging.
Mr Onywera believed in his spirit so much that he placed the bet with Betway gaming company with his last 100 Kenyan shillings (N300). Lady Luck finally smiled at the man as he hit the jackpot. He’s the traditional embodiment of the rags to riches tale!
Onywera won 20 million shillings which roughly translates to N63m.
Joseph Onywera displays a KSh 20 million ‘cheque’ from Betway after winning the jackpot in May. Photo: Betway
Before he placed his bet, Mr Onywera’s mind was in turmoil. He said he could hear discouraging voices screaming in his head. He ignored them and gambled away his last Ksh100.
The man said on his wife’s return, “I saw her come into my compound and I wondered. She had told me to my face that she would only return after I die. So I told her to go away since I am still alive.”
Onywera who is an Arsenal fan said he was certain she only came back because of the money, “Ever since she left, several incidents have happened that would attract her attention. My mother died but she did not turn up for her burial. My father also died and I had an accident, but she did not bother to check on us,” he said
He did say that there was a lady who stuck with him through the trying times and he wanted to marry her. “I am a humble rice and tomato farmer. A certain woman who respected and loved me when all I had was farming will be the one to live with me in this permanent house,” he said.
Was the Epl in June?
she go do automatic u-turn l believed.
People that don’t even know about gambling are talkingU0001f602U0001f602U0001f602
I don’t gamble but have better knowledge than some people, do you know that someone can win that same 63 million on his first bet if all predictions were right?
Gambling companies have no business with your past records whether right or wrong, if investments give money in gambling then everyone would have been gamblers by now
If you are stupid.. don’t expect that everybody will be stupid like you.
Everyone is still saying their mind, the fact here Is that the woman left him in struggle so whether he was losing all the money they had made the woman to run away or because he’s just poor Is not a point the true fact is that she ran away out of for better for worst that marriage is all about and luckily God has blessed the poor man, and don’t pray for his down fall by suggesting he may lose the money on the same game, is only a fool will do that by the way.
Sandy I will make you a friend because you’re positive and I like people like that
That’s because you don’t know anything, you think it’s all cases that goes to court wins., the man has a good case if she goes for divorce so rest your little brain.
We can’t assume, she is straight busted
Now invest the money and quit gambling.
Tell that to the pastor who said don’t marry a man without a job
well said my gee” such is life nd it shud serve as a warning tu others.
It will finish!!
Sir, this is the most reasonable comment here so far… it’s good for a woman to have her own money, enof to take care of her children and herself… and if he likes he should gammble away this money 2 but i wish him forward
APC Change and women change all so
Premier league in June hmmm
Premier league in June hmmm
If u still love ur wife do go back to her cos she loves u that is why she left u to see if ur bad habits of playing jackpot could stop. Now the write up was that she left cos u gat no money. You yourself do u love urself those days when u gat no money? Go and get back that woman she really loves u.
A woman’s love is tested by penury while a man’s love is tested through wealth.
When a man doesn’t have money, that’s when to know if the woman truly loves you. And when a man is rich, that’s when to know if the man truly love you.
Mike Abgo u talk as if you are a wicked man cus a real man cn neva say such
Huyo wife najua lazima arudi, lol!
Gal you dey talk mumu talk who even say make you comment for this man matter now?U0001f620U0001f620
Rest dat case my man.
Onwuka Obinna Ukwa guy you are mouthed for this better talk way you talk now U0001f44dU0001f3feU0001f44dU0001f3feU0001f44dU0001f3fe
That same wife of his will turn back to him now to say that it was devil that made her leave him then.
He’s blessed.
The Thunder wey go strike that women dey do press up.
Waa ladies must learn from such precident
Savage A F
Hahahaha… This is so… Funny
@#Atugo_Michael; Tnx sir!
If she Comes back i will make her my hause Girl .
He is still poor all the same. Jackpot never can make him rich.
63 what?oh my God definitely madam will come back o!
No amount of money that can make man Rich, being poor is the state of mind. So being Rich is outward expression of the state of ur mind not get it quickly method.
it is very easier to go back to the jackpot without investment -mentality when the greatest investment he believed in is gambling .
@ Anu, did you actually type that comment or did the comment type itself with your fingers? I think that’s the Dumbest comment i have read on facebook. She walked away when there was no money so let her keep walking.
Awoof money no dey last oo
The woman has badluck. She should stay away from the man because if the man is an addicted gambler she will still run away again if the man goes broke. Let both of them maintain the status quo.
@Nikki luci, You women always look for reasons and excuses to justify your callousness. So what right does she have to come back now? Or maybe she is back to kill the man finally and run away with his money, with his new lover.
She will be back
NO MATTER WHAT SHE SHOULD NOT LEAVE HER HUSBAND,AFTER ALL MARRIAGE IS FOR BETTER AND FOR WORST.
Congrats but as for the woman, I would suggest you give her whatever comes from your heart due to the time you and her spent together in the past but never accept her back
God at work for him now!!!
#ThankGod 4 his mercy on him#
What if hes a kenyan but living in Nigeria!
How much is that in US dollars?
Why don’t you guys read the article?
Tru talk @bash God punish forgivness
Expect a come back.
That means good radiant to bad rubbish
..they are traditionally divorsed;the wife initiated the divorse so she can not go back to the man
There’s know space for her, because she didn’t die for me.
If am the man … I will have to consult Pastor E.O Adeboye
Hey ta man is in my country he only used 200Naira Nd he won ta amount it was pure luck
We don’t use naira they exchanged it from shillings to naira Nd its a true story
he invested and collected
Barnali Das Read the 1st part
Girl. U know nothing about lotto
If he was my father and she my mother…my father would not take her back…. Why…???… WOMAN YOU WALK OUT AND ON YOUR CHILDREN ….forget the man YOUR CHILDREN YOU WALK OUT ON ….Come On ..and because of money you come back …Get Out of Here with that ….
Woman you didn’t know the man was Poor ….and you have children with him and then WALK OUT ON YOUR CHILDREN…forget the man but your CHILDREN….Now you hear about Money and you run back ….GO SIT YOUR DUMBASS DOWN ….
That’s not true. This man won 20million kenyan shillings.
So he didn’t listen and she left ….now that him won why she come back …. So tell me now PLEASE…. WHY SHE COME …???…
That wife must be stupid to have come back.
Quitters never win and winners never quit that’s the spirit of the gambling..
Woman, please forgive your man for being poor. Now is the time for you to come back home and take good care of your husband. Your husband needs you now than ever, please consider the situation now and go back. Don’t listen to whatever others would say, just go back and forgive him.
That wife is the spirit that delayed the man victory
Delali Christopher Jamil Kpeku läs hmm
Wat GOD can do.
#63m….he no go fit Chop am finish o……See how pple dey take Paracetamol for another person headache.
Na god win
… In good times and in bad times.
For better for worse.
Is that not the vow they took???
If wife is a property that can only be afforded by those with money, the man can as well buy a carton of wives if he wants.
Shame on these kind of women, am sure the woman is an idle, lazy and unproductive woman who does not contribute to the up keep of the house and equally does not compliment his husband financially, but relies wholly on the man.
He is still goin to invest all the money into jackpot, thats all he has been doing nd dats y the wife left him
Poorverty has not even left the man
63m for this kind time omo na real hammer be dat o
Maybe he spent their whole marriage gambling their family money?
Gud job old man. ..don’t accept her AGAIN. …close ur doors. ..
In every situation good has a plan for you.
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If she really loves him moving out of that house will not be an option to her. Even it looks like she is a jinx to him.
Dato Onyekachi G Onyekachi in naira convert.
Oga you are correct elder
The gods re wise do not underrate nature otherwise nature would definitely underrate u
When men gamble and loose,they drink. When a man is drunk, he may batter his wife or beat up his children albeit without provocation. Its very easy for us to blame the woman for leaving. Some have gone religious and some sentimental. Nobody has bothered with the principle of Audi alterem patem (ie) hear the other party. I stand to be corrected but I don’t think any woman in her right sense s will leave her children and run away from her home ‘cos the husband is poor. There must be other underlying factors that must have led to her action. I am an advocate of ‘together until death does us part ‘ but then it will also be foolishness to endanger your life in an abusive relationship (which I suspect is part of the silent and untold side of this story). Gambling,excessive alcohol intake and other related vices have ruined a lot of homes. The fact that the man won #63m does not negate the fact that gambling is not an occupation/profession. Anyone is free to differ but I hold on to my opinion.
this man must be a good man God decided to put his enemy into shame, (for better for worst) if his wife is a child of God she coulden’t have left, Now God has answered his prayer
Eunice Kerubo thanks for telling me that Kenyans are not using naira as their currency, some people can’t understand simple English
Still remember you signed for better for worse. Before you agree he’s the one, think twice.
Karma is sweet
Please justify your English U0001f604U0001f604U0001f604U0001f604U0001f604
and u know…as per fellow gambler abi??..
Bet she’s feeling really stupid right about now. For better or worse remember?
Please he should never have that woman back .
Wait and see! She may come and clame something From the guy! If she does that means she as no shame! I bet she will be kicking herself right now!!!
So now what will all this Nigeria and African pastors preach again about this ??????They are God that knows everything……. Nobody Nobody’knows Tomorrow
Food for thought for both genders
God answered his prayers?. never. satan rather. gambling is a sin
The money will still go back to jackpot.
Lol OT General U0001f603U0001f603U0001f603U0001f603
He’ll be getting that “Hey big head” text from ex wife in an hour U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602 congrats to him though
Bash …to say d fact he is just lucky bcos gambling isn’t a good thing at all . U don’t know for how long d lady as bn enduring n taking care of d family when she knows day he is all abt gambling . So I don’t blame her …but I just hope he use d money wisely dis time. But God knows best
@fred …. Playing gamble or lotto is it a good thing to do or invest in? And God doesn’t bless us through what Is wrong. So my advice for him is just to “change” n turn a new leaf cus nobody knows 2mr.. All is well
Selah i receive it too
I hate women who are motivated by greed. Serves her right for leaving her husband when he was down. Am glad he met someone who never judged him for being poor. He deserves that money after all he been through. Just hope it doesn’t change him!