Narok woman torches house after husband married second wife without consulting

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Saying, or even thinking, “My man left me for another woman” is extremely painful and heartbreaking to any woman.

And when this happens, “It is not what it’s supposed to be, neither is it what I would have wanted it to be, but, damn it, it is what it is!” is a common phrase that often comes to the minds of many women.

This, in most cases, is always followed with drastic measures like it were the case with a woman only identified as Janet at Ilmotiook village, Narok County.

Upon giving her husband a surprise visit at his Narok Town house, Janet was greeted with shock of her life when she found out that he been cohabiting with his illicit lover.

That the love of her life was leading a double life infuriated her so much that she went on rampage and burnt household items including bedding and slashed his maize plantation in his rural home.

It all began with rumours in the village that her husband has secretly married and ‘installed’ a second wife in his Narok Town house. Janet, like most women are wont, decided to surprise him with an announced visit with one thing on her mind — confronting him.

Janet could not wrap her mind around the fact that her husband condemned her to loneliness and boredom in the village, where he only visits once in a while as he enjoyed life and cohabited with another woman in Town.

True to form, when she reached at her husband’s town residence, she found a stranger. Upon inquiring from her who she was, she lied that the man Janet was looking for had actually moved houses. But a quick survey of the house using her eyes revealed otherwise.

“I saw my husband’s clothes hanging on the clothes’ line and some other familiar items. This made me believe my husband still lived there,’’ said Janet. Even after insisting that she believed her husband still lived there, the other woman remained adamant before slamming the door on her.

Janet tried to reach her husband on phone only to be yelled at and quarreled for making an announced visit. “He was unhappy with my impromptu visit. He told me he was busy at work, and he could not accurately explain to me where he had moved to,” said Janet.

A helpless Janet had no other option but board a matatu to her rural home, considering her husband was away at work and not willing to see her. Whoever coined the phrase ‘hell hath no fury as a woman scorned’ perhaps had Janet in mind.

When she got home, in a fit of self-righteous rage, slashed acres of his maize plantation and fed them on a neighbour’s cows grazing nearby; smashed beds, cupboards, doors and windows into pieces and set his house ablaze.

Shocked neighbours watched at a distance, and could do nothing since Janet ran amok and threw insults to whoever dared to go near the house. ‘’No one dared to go near her because she looked mad, and kept cursing and hurling insults to whoever approached the house,’’ a neigbour told Crazy Monday.

She is reported to have immediately grabbed her two children from her mother-in-law’s place, hopped onto a boda boda, and dumped them at her parents’ home in Longisa, Bomet County before going into hiding. Her mother-in-law whom this writer requested to talk to said she had nothing much to say, but only to express her disappointment in her for “overreacting over a small matter”.

She is currently on the run. Authorities are on her case. By press time, her husband had not set foot in the village.