Woman attacks husband with jembe

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A 56-year-old man is nursing head and jaw injuries after his wife attacked him with a jembe.

The attack was prompted by an argument over a new number the woman had saved on her mobile phone.

Edward Yaboga is admitted to Likuyani Sub County Hospital in critical condition. Josephine Nanjala, his wife, said she attacked him in self-defence.

“I left to pick firewood in the forest and left the phone in the house. When I came back he closed the door and started hurling insults as he beat me,” she said and added: “I didn’t mean to hurt him. It was in self-defence. He has been accusing me of infidelity, saying I sleep with men in his house, which is a big lie.”