LIB reported yesterday that Joyce Kandie was arrested,
along with her husband and his lover after she destroyed his car.
In an
interview with Citizen Digital, Joyce said her husband, a
senior Kenya Power employee, abandoned her and her six children after he
was "charmed" by the alleged mpango wa kando. (whatever that means)
"My name is Joyce Kandie. Another woman eloped with my husband
since
December, 2015. My husband never comes home, he never gives me money for
food and upkeep, and he has changed his mobile phone contact. I have
been following up on his movements, and I learnt of his whereabouts. He
moved me into a house that whose rent is Ksh4,000. Prior to
relocation, I used to live in an apartment where I paid a monthly rent
of Ksh15, 000. My child is ailing; he’s been having a running stomach
for two weeks. When I request for money to take the child to hospital
from my husband, he refuses; instead, he tells me to borrow money from a
maize vendor who is my friend,"
Kandie said she has reported her unfaithful husband to authorities, but action is yet to be taken.
"He has been summoned several times by children’s rights authorities,
but he ignores it. He used to visit me every once in a while, but now
he hardly shows up – and he even stopped going to work. I think the
woman has used black magic charms on him. The kind of house I am
currently living in is in a bad state! There are snakes around, and the
sanitation is deplorable! The pit latrines are full to the brim, and
there’s no tapped water. I am forced to draw water from a borehole."
Kandie said she wants a divorce because he has been threatening her:
“I want a divorce. My husband has been threatening to kill me, and
he
often tells me: “I am already a dead person”. He says I smell like a
dead person – since November. He further claims I am not in his “class”.
He has disowned me saying I am not his wife. I have already reported
the matter to authorities. He has excitedly foreboded my death. I
have spoken with his family members, who sided with me. However, he
fell out with them, but later reconciled and they all ganged up against
me; saying I left my husband in April, 2016 and went to Nairobi. I went
to Syokimau to save myself from being beaten to death. He
later reported at the children’s rights authorities that I am insane,
and that I am planning to kill the children. He made his son who has
completed secondary education to share a
room with my daughter who is in Form One; and when I complained, he says
I am illiterate and all I can think of is sex. He has accused me of
sleeping with two of his workmates,"
Kandie says she has been supportive of her husband – who, according
to her, had nothing in terms of wealth to boast of a few years ago.
"This man was a clerk before, when I used to work. He has fleeced me
of my money. I took bank loans to bankroll his lifestyle. Now that I am
unemployed and penniless he doesn’t think I am fit enough to be his
wife. He’s been beating me senseless. I lost one of my teeth as result
of his constant battery.
According
to Kandie she resorted to destroying her husband’s Land Rover Defender
because she’d gone to ask him for money at the mpango wa kando’s house –
but he became hostile toward her.
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