A woman identified as Maureen Atieno Omolo, has narrated how her husband plucked off her eye, cut off her finger, and inflicted several machete wounds on her body.
Omolo who made this known in an interview with Afrimax TV, said the man’s intention was to kill her rather than watch her walk into another man’s arms.
The lady revealed that she came from a family of four but lost both parents while she was nine. She became an orphan at that tender age and had the responsibility of fending for herself and her younger siblings.
Omolo said she was compelled to get married at the age of 15 and this was in order to get someone to help take care of her and her siblings. She did not like this idea of getting married at an early age but she thought it was the only option available to her at the time.
She said her husband would go to work every day, all in a bid to take care of the family. But there was a big challenge. He wouldn’t want any other man, not even his own friends; he wanted to be the only person in her life.
Omolo said she became a prisoner in her husband’s house as she had to live a solitary life because her husband feared another man might snatch her from him.
She tried to allay his fear, but the man was adamant, saying he had to be protective of her because he loved her. He would lock her up and leave for work, to avoid losing her to another man.
Although the husband’s jealousy was becoming unbearable, she decided to endure it, hoping that things might change in the future.
Omolo disclosed that her husband also vowed that he would rather kill her than allow another man to take her away from him. She took the man’s threat lightly because she thought he had only said it out of love and jealousy.
After some years, she and her husband had four children, but lost one, leaving them with three. One day, she sought her husband’s permission to start doing some business to earn some money to support him in taking care of the family. She had feared that he would not agree to the idea, but he did, surprisingly.
She got a job as househelp in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and she had to leave her husband and the children behind and only visit them from time to time. She said;
“He warned me that if I ever cheated on him, he would kill me.”
While away, text messaging was one of the means of communication between her and the husband, and he kept reechoing the threat to kill her together with any other man she cheated on her with or tried to leave him for.
While she was keeping herself safe for her husband, a few months later, when she returned home to visit the family, she had the shock of her life. Her husband had gone for another woman.
After crying, Omolo decided to return to the city because she didn’t feel she belonged in the house, but her husband would not agree. He wanted to still have her as his wife and throw the second woman out for her sake.
After she went back to Nairobi, her husband became furious and called and threatened to kill the children if she didn’t come back. She said she quickly returned home to avoid her children being killed. She had to live with her rival, with whom she always had misunderstandings.
She decided to return to Nairobi to retrieve some money that her former employers owed her. Her jealous husband thought she was leaving for good, so he texted her brother to inform him that he was going to kill Omolo.
Before her brother could call to alert her to flee, the man had already launched an attack on her with a machete that his second wife had brought to him. The mother of three said;
“I was pleading with him to stop, but he didn’t. He cut me, and I fell on the ground. I kept pleading with him to forgive and not kill me, but he said whatever I said, he was going to kill me and then go to prison.”
He continued to cut her right hand, back and her shoulders with the machete, and proceeded to pluck off her eye and then she blacked out.
He thought she had died, so he left her and drank poison to die but failed. He then ran to the police station to report himself. His second wife too fled.
Omolo was rushed to the hospital and fortunately she survived. She now sells fruits by the road to earn money to take care of herself and children.
Jane Wambui: I Worked In Saudi Arabia For 9 Years Only For My Daughter To Squander All The Ksh2 Million I Was Sending Her To Save
Jane Wambui is among a host of fortunate Kenyans who got an opportunity to travel out of the country for work.
She travelled to Saudi Arabia where she spent nine years working for the betterment of her life and her daughter.
While in the Gulf country, she would send money to her daughter every month for her personal use and savings.
Wambui had hoped to set up a business once she returns to the country but as fate would have it, her daughter ended up wasting all the money that her mother was sending to her.
Here is her story as told by Wakenyaleo.co.ke
Background
In an interview on TUKO, Wambui said she left the country for Saudi Arabia in 2014.
Upon her arrival, she was subjected to harsh working conditions as her boss was cruel, and she did not have a specific workplace.
She would work for different people from time to time although the contract had stated that she would work for one person.
When Wambui confronted her boss, she was physically abused and even stabbed on the leg as she tried to air her grievances.
Despite the life threatening ordeal, she was bold enough to speak and she was taken to a better place to work.
I was taken to this place where I was taking care of the elderly. Everything was well and I worked at the place for over four months
“However, when I went to demand my salary for the four months worked, she didn’t want to pay me. And I had to confront the boss in-charge of my workplace,” Wambui said.
Wambui was eventually paid and she continued working shortly before she decided to escape from her workplace. She engaged in menial jobs, some times without being paid.
“The reason why I went to Saudi Arabia was to take care of my children because my eldest daughter was joining secondary and the other one was in class one,” she said.
When she left Kenya, Wambui left her son under the care of his sister, Hottensia Wambui, and she even rented a house for them.
Despite the harsh working conditions in Saudi Arabia, Wambui still managed to send money back home.
Open bank account
She would to her sister but she later instructed her daughter to open a bank account to which she will be depositing money into.
“I started sending money directly to my daughter in 2017… I would send the money monthly or some times after two months,” she said.
Wambui would send up to Ksh 56,000 every month or after every two months.
“I had trusted her because every time I would send her money I’d instruct her not to misuse the money or lend it to her friends
“I had trusted her like my child, and every time we would talk she assured me that my money was safe and I should not be worried,” she stated.
After working for nine years, Wambui got the impression that she had not business in Saudi since her life was secured.
Having in mind that she had savings in Kenya, she was sure that she would soon be returning to settle.
“She repeatedly reassured me that the money was secure in her account. Upon my return I saw that she had an anxious and troubled expression on her face,” she said.
Parties
It later emerged that her daughter had spent most of the savings on parties, drinking and pampering her friends.
She had also used part of the saving on an online forex trading business.
Wambui also learnt that her daughter also bought a car on credit; a deposit of Ksh 500,000 and signed a contract that said she would pay Ksh 62,500 every month.
“After three months, she had only collected KSh 10,000 from her buddy driver, who had been using the vehicle as a taxi,” she said.
The savings amounted to over Ksh 2 million.
Business
Wambui had plans of setting up a business in Kiambu town with the savings, and to continue supporting her family.
“I had planned on starting a business here in Kiambu and also paying for school for my children, but as we speak, even money to purchase food is an issue. I had intended to create a business here in Kiambu and also pay for school for my children,” she said.
Wambui noted that even though her daughter has been begging her for forgiveness, she will never forgive her.
“I will never ever forgive her, unless she returns that money. I’ve really struggled for it for many years,” she said.
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