A memo to male comrades: Don’t kill for love

Naftali Kinuthia in the holding cells at the Eldoret High Court on April 15. He is accused of killing Ivy Wangeci, his alleged girlfriend who was a Medical student at the Moi University School of Medicine. [Kevin Tunoi/Standard]

One of the few guarantees of life is that a girl will break your heart in your 20s. She will leave or cheat on you with a richer or more handsome man. In the current age, the other ‘man’ might as well be a woman. She may despise you, and boy, there is nothing that stings like contempt from a woman you love, more so when she is looking for an excuse to dump you.

All men, our fathers, the yuppies in their 30s and the middle-level managers in their 40s in blue chip companies have been dumped, played, abused by women they loved and would cross oceans for. The break-ups were painful. Some even incurred material losses.