Dorea Chege, a former Maria actress, has admitted that she decided not to run for Woman Representative after receiving threats and incentives from politicians to resign.
The outspoken actress revealed that when individuals started exhibiting interest in political positions, her cameraman was the one who had the notion to produce a poster.
Chege claimed in an interview with Buzz Central Kenya that she had not anticipated her post to become as popular as it did, which had made her aware of the influence she has on people.
“It all started as a joke. I received so many calls, even from my grandfather. I had not even told my parents, so when my mum called me, she encouraged me and told me I could do it,” she said.
However, as soon as she launched her interest, she started getting threats from people who demanded she gets out of the race.
“I would get calls from people to step down, then there were people who would call me and offer me money to drop my bid and help them campaign that I even started looking at such options, but it got to a point I just told me I am out of the race, because I am not used to those political things,” she said.
The actress, however, said her mum was the person who pushed her to buy a piece of land in Juja so she can have something with her name on it.
“She took me to Juja, I looked at the prices and since I am a good saver, I had the money and so I decided to buy the land since it was like peanuts. I had no intentions of building the house at all, I just wanted to buy land and then forget about it,” she further said.
However, one day, when taking her friend to where she bought her land, she was shocked to find her neighbours had already built structures and had ongoing construction.
“I was embarrassed, and they knew who I was. I was like, these people probably think celebrities have no money. I will prove them wrong, so I started building,” she added.
According to the Selina actress, she has so far used about KSh 3.7 million with more than KSh 1 million only for the foundation of her 7-bedroom house.
She hopes to move in by the end of December this year.
