Woman hacked by husband for refusing to share her salary, another over custody of their child

Two Kenyan women are currently receiving
treatment at the Nyahururu County Referral
hospital after they were attacked by their
husbands in separate incidents.
32-year-old Zipporah Wanjugu (left) is nursing
serious injuries on both hands and head, which
she sustained after her husband attacked her
with a panga (large knife) on Wednesday night,
August 3rd at their home in Wiyumiririe village
in Laikipia County.
Vivian Moraa, 23 (right) a labourer at Suera
Flowers Company, claims her husband picked a
panga and told her that he would chop off her
hands ‘just like the other lady who was on TV'.
The resident of Suera area on the outskirts of
Nyahururu town sustained serious head injuries
after being battered by her husband because
she refused to share her wages with him.
"After receiving my wages, I went home with
household goods I bought from Nyahururu town
and that angered my husband. He said that it
was wrong for me to buy household goods and
yet he had no money," she said.
In Mrs Wanjugu case, she had gone to pick her
three-month-old baby from her estranged
husband’s home when the the incident
happened. She said she had domestic
differences when she decided to separate from
her husband.
"I separated from him two months ago only for
him to storm into my rented house and take
away the baby without uttering a word. I
finished my work and went to pick the baby so
that I could breastfeed him only for him to start
insulting me before picking a panga which he
used to attack me," she said.
The mother of four woke up to find herself in a
hospital bed and later fell unconscious. A police
officer at Ndaragwa police station who arrested
the man said the attacker had poison in his
pocket during the time of the arrest.
"After the incident was reported to us, we
rushed to the scene and arrested the man. He
had tried to commit suicide because he had
poison in his pocket," said a police officer.
The victim claimed that the man had turned her
into the sole breadwinner for their four children,
adding that he had threatened her on several
occasions saying he wanted both of them dead.
A doctor at the facility said that the two
women are out of danger, but Ms Wanjugu’s
left hand had been severely damaged.