“Babe Kuja Unitoe Mshipi, Kumbe Alikuwa Ameficha Kisu” Kenyan Lady Speaks Full Of Tears on Her Husband’s Plan to End Her Life
My name is Freshia Wangui, and I come from Kirinyaga County. I got married to John Murage in 2024, and I believed our life together would be full of love and peace. But I was wrong. My marriage quickly turned into a nightmare, and every day became harder than the last.
“My husband would always come home drunk, and he would beat me, even when there was no money to feed our children,” I remember saying. “I suffered, and my children suffered. I tried everything I could to make my marriage stable, but he grew wilder day by day.”
My parents tried to intervene. They tried to talk to him, to reason with him, but he wouldn’t listen. He was lost in his own darkness. Then came the day that changed everything—an event I will never forget.
“Mwisho nakumbuka alikuja akiwa mlevi, kumbe alikuwa na mpango yake. alichukua Kisu akaificha chini ya kitanda kisha aka-time wakati nimemaliza kupika. Akaniita, Babe Kuja unitoe hii mshipi… kumbe alikuwa ameamua vingine. Akanishika na kuniambia niite watoto niwaabie jambo la mwisho. Nilingangana nikamuuma mkono, akaniachilia na kisha nikaweza kutoroka kutoka kwa mikono yake.”
From that day, I knew I could never return to that home. The hardest part was watching my children suffer because of a man I had once loved. I tried everything to survive. I looked for work, but the jobs barely paid anything. “I was paid 7,000 shillings—it wasn’t enough. I tried doing laundry, but sometimes the work would disappear. My businesses failed. I felt hopeless,” I say with tears.
