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Jackline Mwende had a Somali lover - Jirani

Mwende in her shop

One morning in July 2016, chilling news trickled in from a sleepy village in Machakos County, that a woman, Jackline Mwende, had been savagely attacked by her husband in a gruesome case of domestic violence.

Stephen Ngila, a 34-year-old tailor, had allegedly chopped off Mwende’s two arms and left her for the dead.

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