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Nyeri: Kenya's clobber capital

                 Woman beats man                Photo: Courtesy

 

The male battery centre that is Nyeri was memorably framed by the ‘barbed wire” face of Simon Kiguta whose 26-year-old wife Juliana Wairimu slashed his 40-year-old face after he allegedly demanded sex in 2012. Wairimu then locked Kiguta inside their house at Mihuti village in Mukurwe-ini, leaving him for dead.

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