Ladies, marry a ‘karao’ or soldier at your own risk

Every other day, there is a report of a policeman, military officer or Administration Police officer who kills his wife in a love-triangle saga before shooting themselves  Photo:Courtesy

“I will decorate their bodies with bullets, I swear, let me get to them,” the young man was quarrelling with himself as he walked down University Way a couple of years ago. He stopped me and asked; “If a woman you are about to marry and you have been sending money to leaves you for another man, what will you do as a man?”

Turns out he was a cop based in Meru and his girlfriend, and prospective wife, had run off with another man. He was fuming, swearing in suicidal fashion that he was about to kill the two and hang himself. I calmed him, reassuring him that all men his age (20s) are usually left by women, and it can actually be a good thing.