Abel Mutua's daughter Stephanie who goes by the moniker 'Mumbus' has revealed the surprising lengths to which her father went to make her learn the national language, Kiswahili.

Mumbus made the revelation during a recent YouTube video that she and her parents did dubbed, 'the yes or no challenge' where the participants could choose whether to answer the question raised or do exercise. 

The conversation came up shortly after her mom, talent manager and fast rising content creator Judy Nyawira, gave Mumbus and her dad.

The challenge was to decode which one among two sentences that she'd read out were grammatically correct. 

"You know! Fun fact, during my early ages... early years, my dad used to punish me because I spoke English a lot," the 13-year-old high schooler shared as she recounted her childhood. 

Turning to her dad urging him to let the audience know she wasn't fibbing. "Am I lying?" Mumbus inquired to which Abel softly agreed with her claims as he let out a chuckle. 

She went on to state that her dad did not play when it came to ensuring his daughter spoke Swahili.

According to Mumbus there was a "no English" policy in their house and if she forgot and broke the rule her dad would punish her. 

"It was so serious! Like it was so serious... it was dhambi (a sin) in this household to speak English. It was so serious," the veteran actor's daughter said. 

Echoing her daughter's story Judy chimed in adding, "By the way, it got to a point where daddy said you only speak English in school. When you come home, you only speak in Swahili."

Playing "devil's advocate" Judy she went on to defend her husband noting that his ways might have been "extreme" but in the long run it was beneficial as now Mumbus can hold a conversation fluently in both languages. 

"But you see how amazing it is because now you can speak both languages very fluently. Right? You see how it has come in handy in situations," Judy said.

This motivated Abel to finally join in the conversation as he defended his earlier ways. The prolific storyteller argued it is embarrassing being born in a country and not knowing its native language. 

"Imagine you being a Kenyan and you cannot speak the national language," the father of one said still reeling from laughter as he recalled them days. 

"I could... I could speak Swahili I just didn't use to converse in it frequently," Mumbus said in her defense.