Uxoricide: Worrying trend in Kenya

Burial of the Vera Beauty college girl raped, killed, hand and legs chopped off by a man she rejected.

I has been by concern and it is still my concern on the number of Uxoricide experienced in Kenya. Uxoricide is derived from.two Latin words  uxor meaning "wife" and -cide, meaning "to cut, to kill" . It means termination of life of a wife or a romantic partner.

I have failed to understand what is causing all these deaths. 

Most deaths have been attributed to love affairs gone sour but does it mean if love ends there must be comission of crime. 

Somebody you have been in a relationship with, somebody you have helped in the time of need, somebody who has helped you put off "fire" and somebody who has given you company for a period of time, then you take a knife, machete, struggulation rope or a gunny bag to end her life, How? Why? For what? 

It pain me to see young girls lose life in the hands of their boyfriends. I am left wondering what might be the cause of all these killing, Is it a demon sent to Kenya, is it that people are over investing in their partners, peer pressure or it's a matter of multiple partners. 

For the last few years there has been 

heartless murder of female university students all because of love. University of Nairobi School of Journalism master’s student Mercy Keino in 2011 to 2019 brutal killing of Ms Ivy Wangechi, a sixth-year medical student at Moi University.

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Carol Ngumbu, 21

Student at Kenya Medical Training College, Karen Campus. Her body was found alongside that of IEBC ICT manager Chris Msando days after the duo went missing.

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Faith Chepkirui

Chepkirui, a first-year student at Kaiboi Technical Training Institute, was stabbed three times by her boyfriend Mathew Kiptoo Yego, a second-year student at the same institution.

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Christine Maonga

In March 2019 , graduate student and high school teacher Christine Maonga was reportedly shot by her lover at her house in Navakholo in Kakamega County after he found out that Christine had abandoned him for another man.

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Vennah Kemunto, 22

Kisii University student Vennah Kemunto was strangled to death by her 23-year-old boyfriend Samson Obwocha in September 2018 in her hostel room in Kisii County.

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Cynthia Chelagat

Chelagat was in her final year of studying for a Bachelor of Agriculture degree at Egerton University’s Njoro campus when she was killed in February 2018 by being stabbed six times by her boyfriend Edmond Ruto

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Sharon Otieno, 26

Ms Otieno was a second-year student at Rongo University. She was abducted and killed when she was seven months pregnant.

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Beryl Atieno, 28

In February 2019, Paul Ochieng’, 21, who had been living with Form Two student Beryl Atieno, 18, for 10 months at Ober Village, Ndhiwa Sub-County, violently hit her on the head with a table leg and killed her, before hanging himself on the rafters of his house.

However the accused persons and their conspirators are in court, it cannot bring the life of young girls back. Something need to be done. But if you ask me what should be done, I might not be able to give any option because I am still in pain.

Even the media has been tired of these sad stories.  I know of a The Vera Beauty college girl who was raped, killed, chopped off her hands and legs inside her mother's house by a man she rejected and no media has highlighted this.

Anyway....

Find the report by UNODC