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Police in Bungoma County on Thursday arrested a middle-aged woman who is alleged to have killed her husband following a fight over Ksh.1,000.
The woman claimed that her husband, Ronald Simiyu Wekesa, stole Ksh.1,000 from her last week and he had declined to return the money.
On Wednesday evening, the 53-year-old man reportedly returned home drunk, and the wife demanded for the Ksh.1,000 accusing him of squandering the money on alcohol.
A fight ensued before the woman hit the man with a blunt object on the head and cut him on the leg with a panga.
According to the couple’s neighbour, he heard a commotion in the house before the woman called him to see how “she had punished her husband for wasting her money.”
“His wife called me to see how she had punished Simiyu for using her money to drink. At first, I thought he had only been cut on the leg but when I moved closer, his head was lying on a pool of blood and he was also breathing heavily,” said Patrick Kakai, the couple’s neighbour.
The man was pronounced dead on arrival at Lugulu Mission Hospital.
“We called an ambulance but as soon as it arrived we realized that my brother had passed on. We only carried his corpse,” Simiyu’s brother Bonaventure Wekesa toldCitizen Digital.
The woman claimed that her husband, Ronald Simiyu Wekesa, stole Ksh.1,000 from her last week and he had declined to return the money.
On Wednesday evening, the 53-year-old man reportedly returned home drunk, and the wife demanded for the Ksh.1,000 accusing him of squandering the money on alcohol.
A fight ensued before the woman hit the man with a blunt object on the head and cut him on the leg with a panga.
According to the couple’s neighbour, he heard a commotion in the house before the woman called him to see how “she had punished her husband for wasting her money.”
“His wife called me to see how she had punished Simiyu for using her money to drink. At first, I thought he had only been cut on the leg but when I moved closer, his head was lying on a pool of blood and he was also breathing heavily,” said Patrick Kakai, the couple’s neighbour.
The man was pronounced dead on arrival at Lugulu Mission Hospital.
“We called an ambulance but as soon as it arrived we realized that my brother had passed on. We only carried his corpse,” Simiyu’s brother Bonaventure Wekesa toldCitizen Digital.
