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Kenyan women, don't cut your husbands

It all started in Nyeri, but the craze has now caught up with women countrywide.  If you can’t beat them, cut them. That’s the mantra antagonized women in floundering relationships are living by. The situation is so rampant that Maendeleo ya wanaume’s chair Ndiritu Njoka can’t handle all the issues by himself. Kenyan men now bear the brunt of spousal abuse more than ever, albeit in a painful and embarrassing way.

In light of the lazy men who’ve relinquished their responsibilities in favor of the booze, I can quite understand this progression. You see, I don’t support wayward men, men that have abandoned their wives and children, and can’t even remember their lastborn first name, and go home drunk at midnight, with nothing more than a ravenous need for the tired wife who did all the housework. Yes, those men whose only success is binge drinking with the boys.

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