Man gangs up with lover against his wife

By Paul Kariuki

A man in Bahati District, Nakuru County, sent tongues wagging when he brought a clandestine lover to his matrimonial bed and forced his wife to sleep on the sofa.

The two, who have two children, have had a difficult marriage characterised by squabbles with the wife accusing her husband of gross infidelity. But the last straw was when he brought his lover home.

The man drinks like a fish and his young family barely has food because he heavily ‘invests’ in the bottle.

He is, however, generous to a fault. He is known for dishing out cash to barmaids and prostitutes when he hardly spares anything for his wife — who recently had a baby — and the children.

Nagging

Sources say he has a child with the woman he brought home for the night. His wife is said to have known of this ‘baggage’ all along, but chose to play it ‘safe’ for the sake of their marriage. But this interloper was like no other — she would end their troublesome union.

Her husband, it is said, would disappear for days on end to be in the arms of the clandestine lover believed to reside in Nakuru town where the man works. He only resurfaces after a long spell with provisions, to ‘silence that nagging woman’.

But this time, he brought home ‘auntie’ — as their first-born child was made to believe — in a visit that was to terminate his marriage. Perhaps the man, unable to await his wife’s full recovery from childbirth, had brought the woman to make up for lost time.

Or maybe he just wanted to anger and hurt her — a calculated ploy to kick a wife he no longer desired out of the marriage. And sure enough it brought fireworks in the night as the two women argued bitterly.

“Who gave you the right to my house and husband?” screamed the matronly wife to the svelte and unapologetic guest.

She remained calm and collected and told her hostess off in no uncertain terms. A fight ensued with the man and his chips funga ganging up against her, with a firm resolve to kick her out into the cold night.

Sensing defeat and feeling helpless because of the children, she had no option but to spend the night on a sofa.

In the morning, however, she packed and left her children, leaving the two to whatever fate awaits them.