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Jilted wives fattening their men with steel wool

The wool flecks do not manifest immediately when ingested.

When your wife discovers you’ve been cheating and then keeps quiet, be afraid; very afraid. Cheating brings heartbreak and humiliation with revenge not far away from a woman’s mind. There is nothing more potent like silent revenge as one way of skinning a male rat of a husband. Revenge solutions range from applying well-grounded steel wool in the husband’s meals.  The wool flecks do not manifest immediately, but in less than six months, the cheating husband will be depleting his medical insurance with hospital visits more frequently than he had been seeing his mpango.

Belinda Waweru, 61, a landlady in Nairobi’s Kayole area revealed that her son was saved by his boy who had witnessed the mother adding fine steel wool in his dad’s meals. The son had been cheating on his wife, a salonist. Belinda claims her grandson once visited her this year - and while she was cooking wondered whether she intended to spice things up by adding a little steel wool in his dad’s meal just like his mum often did back at home - food that children were not allowed to taste.

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