MP's wife accuses him of battery and neglect
The wife of a Member of Parliament yesterday went to the Federation of Women Lawyers to accuse him of assault and neglect.
Showing marks all over her body, Mrs Linet Atieno, said her husband, Mr Sospeter Ojamoong', the MP for Amagoro, has changed his ways since he was elected to Parliament.
But Mr Ojamoong' denied abandoning her, saying that the allegations were false. The MP said his wife was trying to blackmail him. "If there was any problem it is domestic and it should be sorted out at our level," he said.
His wife, however, said the man she wedded six years ago had left the family to fend for itself.
Mrs Atieno appeared at a press conference dressed in a wrap, exposing wounds on her back and cheeks, which she claimed were bites and scratches inflicted by her husband.
She said over the past eight months, her husband had been embarrassing her.
"Now that he is an MP, he says he doesn't need me. I have to queue outside his Parliamentary office at Continental Building to see him," she said as she displayed her marriage certificate to the Press.
Federation of Women lawyers chairperson Joyce Majiwa said the issue was serious and urged police to take action.
The organisation said the woman would have to decide whether to file charges against her husband.
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