Marriage in jeopardy after drunk Nakuru hubby staggers home with secret lover

A marriage in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Nakuru Town has hit rock bottom after a wife fled, following a nasty fight with her husband and his secret lover last Sunday evening.

This was after the woman’s drunken husband, a jua kali artisan only identified as Njuguna, staggered home with his equally tipsy secret lover and introduced her as his second wife.

Njuguna set tongues wagging when he unashamedly trooped home high as a kite with the woman, insisting she was his second wife starting that evening.

Things got even worse when his legal wife attempted to protest, only for the duo to team up and clobber her senseless. Without a shame in the world, the father of three teenagers defended his barbaric act, claiming he had persevered for long with his first wife.

He told neighbours who came to his wife’s rescue that he could not take it anymore. “Mine is a rocky marriage and I had to get another wife to help her handle her business in the house,” Njuguna mumbled in drunken slur.

Claiming that his marriage has been two decades of nothing but torture, Njuguna warned neighbours to mind their business for he is the only one who was in a position to explain how bad his first wife is.

Long-suffering wife

According to sources at the informal settlement, the man visited a local pub that evening in company of the said woman and treated themselves to a meal of roast meat and copious amounts of beer.

Once they were done, they staggered to the man’s home a few metres from the watering hole, ready to introduce her as his second wife.

The artisan’s long-suffering wife said she did not anticipate anything when she opened the door to let her husband in. At first, she mistook the drunken female companion as a visitor passing by or a stranded stranger, who was to spend the evening at their home before leaving the following day.

To her shock, her husband blurted out that she was her co-wife, urging her to familiarise her with the house. Njuguna’s wife hit the roof, demanding the woman to leave the house immediately of face dire consequences.

She yelled at her husband, telling him off and telling the other woman to go to hell. A heated exchange ensured, with the drunken woman hurling expletives for being called a harlot. Njuguna’s attempts to defend his secret lover turned futile as his legal wife who would hear none of it attacked him.

Tables, however, turned against her when the drunken pair ganged up and beat her up for being ‘disrespectful’. The offending woman left, but that did not stop Njuguna’s wife from fleeing the following day with her children.