Another man protests at brutal wife
Yet another battered husband came out in the open yesterday and appealed for protection from his violent wife.
Mr Alois Omae, an Agricultural Society of Kenya official, complained that his wife of 19 years regularly ganged up with his step-sons and beat him up.
"I am now seeking police protection. I have been silent for long. I want my wife and my step-sons arrested and prosecuted," he told reporters in Kisii
Mr Omae, who has previously written to police commissioner Edwin Nyaseda on his domestic suffering, complained that a local police chief was protecting his wife.
She had evicted him from their family house in Menyinkwa, on the outskirts of Kisii town, forcing him to live with relatives.
Mr Omae has scars and wounds on his stomach, head and hands, which he claims were inflicted by his wife and children.
So vicious was a beating he received on August 11 that he was admitted to Kisii district hospital for a week.
Police arrested his wife and her two sons, charging them with assault but the case was later withdrawn at his request.
His plight comes to light barely four days after woman from neighbouring Nyamira district, Mellen Kerubo, was fined Sh10,000 or one year's jail for assaulting and injuring her husband George Muro.
Yesterday Mr Omae, who is the ASK's Southern Kenya branch chairman, showed reporters copies of two letters he had written to commissioner Nyaseda seeking protection and accusing a senior officer at Kisii police station of protecting his violent wife.
The officer in charge of Kisii police station, Mr Paul Maranko, said, the complaints were being investigated
"Mr Omae has complained to us about harassment by his wife. The wife has also made similar claims. We are investigating. The Omaes married in 1984 while he was working in Mombasa.
A letter to Mr Nyaseda dated September 26 says in part: "As the battering persisted I went into exile for almost one year. But when I tried to come back home, this time it was worse. I reported to police but nothing was done. I again went into "exile" out of fear."
Mr Omae says he agreed to drop the case against his wife on the understanding he would be given the proceeds from the sale of his three grade cows, which Mrs Omae and her sons had disposed of while he was in hospital.
"But to date I have not received a single cent and instead they keep attacking me," he said.
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