On top of that, Mwende will also be provided with services of a housekeeper who will be paid by Machakos county for a year. She is now disabled and will need artificial hands to get her life together but we can’t afford anything.
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“We are touched by her situation and condemn this beastly act”, she said on Wednesday when she visited the woman at her parent’s home in Kathama village. “We are willing to support her with prosthetic limbs and take care of her transport from her home to the hospital, admission and treatment”.
The 34-year-old is said to have flown into a rage because she had failed to conceive during their marriage – despite doctors saying he was the reason their inability to have children.
Ng’ang’a was with woman representatives Susan Musyoka (Machakos), Mary Seneta (Kajiado), Joyce Lay (Taita Taveta), Florence Kajuju (Meru) and Rose Museo (Makueni).
Others were entrepreneur Esther Passaris, Machakos chairwoman for Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Fransisca Mutinda and Fida chairperson Josephine Mong’are.
Activist Zawadi Nyong’o and LG Electronics marketing general manager Moses Marji were also present.
Stephen Ngila from Machakos County in southern Kenya, was yesterday arrested and charged with attempted murder, after attacking his wife, Jackline Mwende, nearly two weeks ago, according to the women’s rights organization Equality Now. “Violence of whatever kind should stop”, she said. “Pastors should not tell people to keep silent”. “The procedure will be carried out at PCEA Kikuyu Hospital”.
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“The law has created a safety net for women”, she added. The case of Jackline Mwende, a young lady who lost both her arms after her husband hacked them off ostensibly because she could not bear him children, is a sad one that questions the extent to which the Government and relevant authorities have gone in ensuring domestic violence comes to an end.
