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'Western, Nairobi men frequently beaten by their wives’

Planning PS Saitoti Torome (left) with Lilian Onono, county statistics officer, during the launch of the 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey at KICC in Nairobi, yesterday. [PHOTO: EDWARD KIPLIMO/STANDARD]

Men from Western, Nairobi and Nyanza region are the most henpecked in the country, a survey has shown.

The survey, which is set to challenge perceptions that men from Central experience the highest abuse by their spouses, now suggests that more than half of male respondents from Western, Nairobi and Nyanza have experienced physical, sexual or emotional abuse from their wives.

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