Wives are willing to kill their husbands for wealth

On Monday, Monica Kalondu Wambua was jointly charged with Papias Karinga Mureithi for allegedly planning to kill Eric Njiiri Murigu in what is believed to be a fight over property ownership. This came barely a few days after another woman, Ms. Bilha Njoki, an estranged wife of a Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) employee was also arrested together with her relatives for conspiring to kill her former husband after police laid a trap. This is just two examples of the recent cases that have seen women plotting to kill their husbands and others who have murdered their spouses, with most ending in courts.

In 2013 June, the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi was given a chilling narration of a plot by Faith Wairimu Maina who hired hit men to kill her husband of 15 years. Investigating officers told the court how Wairimu gave the hit men a Sh40, 000 down payments and demanded the blood-stained clothes of her husband as proof of his death before clearing the Sh160, 000 balances. In the same year, Janet Karamana Gituma was sentenced with five others to 30 years in prison for killing her husband.