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The costly clandestine affair

  • It is usually easy to tell if your partner or spouse is having an affair. Often, there is a sudden change in their dressing style, manner of speech or friends.
  •  The change will inevitably convert into extra costs. 

But these are only the more obvious effects of mpango wa kando! According to Ndung’u Kang’oro, a family life counsellor, the costs of such illicit liaisons can be enormous when quantified. This counsellor reveals that in extreme cases, men have taken loans or sold off family property to sustain such illegal relations, impoverishing their dependents for several generations after them.

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