The boot is now on the other foot. Your loving wife is likely to have a mpango wa kando behind your back. A new survey reveals that there are more married Kenyan women who are happily cheating than there are married men doing the same.
Take the Kisumu case of a senior Prisons officer’s wife who eloped with a prisoner the day he was released. The prisoner had often been assigned duties of keeping the officer’s compound tidy and it seems he went on to ‘tidy’ the wife as well.
The survey which was commissioned by The Nairobian and carried out by Infotrak Research and Consulting in September, indicated that a married man is likely to be cheated on by a woman from Western Kenya, followed by Nyanza.
Of the respondents interviewed, 77.3 per cent said they knew women who were having extramarital affairs contrary to popular belief that it is the men who are unfaithful in relationships.
Eighty five per cent of respondents sampled in Kakamega, Vihiga, Bungoma and Busia counties indicated that they knew a married woman who was cheating on her husband.
In Nyanza, the figure was 84.8 per cent from respondents in Kisumu, Siaya, Homa Bay, Migori, Kisii and Nyamira counties. Nairobi came third at 76.5 per cent, followed by Rift Valley (74.4 per cent), Coast (74.3 per cent), Eastern (73.3 per cent) and North Eastern 65.2 per cent.
Interestingly, of the 800 respondents sampled through phone interviews, many said there were fewer married men in adulterous relationships than women. Fifty five per cent of the respondents indicated that they knew men who are not having extramarital affairs, with Nairobi recording the highest number at 60 per cent in contrast to 77.3 per cent who said they knew married women who have extramarital affairs.
In the same vein, 73 per cent of men said that they knew married women in extramarital affairs as opposed to 80.4 per cent of females who said they know married women in extramarital affairs.
