A woman is recuperating at the Karatina Sub County Hospital after being allegedly stabbed 17 times by her husband who has been threatening her life for the better part of their
Speaking to a local media house, the woman said her attempts to run away from her inhuman husband were all in vain because the man would go to her workplace every evening and forcefully pick her and drop her back home every day.
”Whenever we had a quarrel in the morning, he would make sure that in the evening he is waiting for me with his car outside my workplace so that I don’t run away. That harshness does not stop even if he is the one to be blamed.
”After learning of my planned escape from his house, he could make sure that every evening he passes by my workplace to pick me home” she narrated.
The stabbing was not the first incidence since the man had attempted to murder her earlier on. She said the man was terrorizing her life and that of her children adding that last year, her husband confronted her with a machete trying to kill her but their landlady came to their rescue.
”Last year he took a machete to kill me but the landlady came to my rescue. He burned all my clothes during the incident and I reported him to Gachengi police station,” she said. Even though she reported the matter to police, they would later agree to resolve the issue without involving the courts and forgave the man.
However, she can longer keep staying with him and wants the man arrested after his various attempts to kill her,as well as threats by the man to kill their children in any case he gets arrested and is freed after serving his sentence.