Man fined bull, goats for chasing wife at night

EMBU: A man in a village of Embu County was recently fined three goats and a bull by clan elders after he expelled his wife of five years at night.

The man who ordered his wife out at 10pm argued he would not have kept her in his bed for the remaining hours of the night.

“How can you expel her at that hour? What did you drink when you were getting back home?” an elder asked bitterly.

The disturbing part of it is that the two had planned to solemnise their union of five years in a wedding in the next two months and they had invited almost everyone in the area to witness.

“You are the one who sent us letters just the other day to attend your wedding. What is this you are showing your only child…?” the elder scolded.

His wife said she could not understand why her husband expelled her at night.

When she was banished, the woman slept at their neighbour’s house where she was advised to report the matter to clan elders.

And after reporting, the clan elders immediately convened a meeting and summoned the father of one.

When he was asked to disclose what his wife had done, he said she had been in an affair with a man who sent him a love text thinking she was the one with the handset.

“She has no mobile phone and so we use this one. Look at this text message and tell me how else I would have acted?” he asked.

A learned elder picked the handset to read the message and immediately, another text arrived and it read.  “I am sorry for the text I sent you last night. It was not meant for that number. I am sorry for any inconveniences or any damage caused by it.”

The second text helped them resolve the meeting immediately.

“You have to pay three goats and a bull for ejecting a woman at night,” an elder said.

It is however not clear whether the man will pay the fine or whether his wife contacted the alleged lover through a different handset. The elders ordered him to apologise immediately.

—FILEX MURIITHI