Photos/Video: Woman hacked by husband for refusing to share her salary, another over custody of their child
Two
Kenyan women are currently receiving treatment at the Nyahururu County Referral
hospital after they were attacked by their husbands in separate
incidents.
32-year-old Zipporah Wanjugu (left) is nursing serious injuries on both hands and
head, which she sustained after her husband attacked her with a panga (large knife) on
Wednesday night, August 3rd at their home in Wiyumiririe village in Laikipia
County.
Vivian Moraa, 23 (right) a labourer at Suera
Flowers Company, claims her husband picked a panga and told her that he
would chop off her hands ‘just like the other lady who was on TV'.
The resident of Suera area on the outskirts of Nyahururu town
sustained serious head injuries after
being battered by her husband because she refused to share her wages with him.
being battered by her husband because she refused to share her wages with him.
"After receiving my wages, I went home with household goods I bought
from Nyahururu town and that angered my husband. He said that it was
wrong for me to buy household goods and yet he had no money," she said.
"I separated from him two months ago only for him to storm into my
rented house and take away the baby without uttering a word. I finished my work and went to pick the baby so that I could
breastfeed him only for him to start insulting me before picking a panga
which he used to attack me," she said.
The
mother of four woke up to find herself in a hospital bed and later fell
unconscious. A police officer at Ndaragwa police station who arrested
the man said
the attacker had poison in his pocket during the time of the arrest.
"After the incident was reported to us, we rushed to the scene and
arrested the man. He had tried to commit suicide because he had poison
in his pocket," said a police officer.
The victim claimed that the man had turned her into the sole
breadwinner for their four children, adding that he had threatened her
on several occasions saying he wanted both of them dead.
A doctor at the facility said that the two women are out of danger, but Ms Wanjugu’s left hand had been severely damaged.
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