My name is Freshia Wangui, and I come from Kirinyaga County. I got married to John Murage in 2024, and I believed our life together would be full of love and peace.
But I was wrong. My marriage quickly turned into a nightmare, and every day became harder than the last.
“My husband would always come home drunk, and he would beat me, even when there was no money to feed our children,” I remember saying.
“I suffered, and my children suffered. I tried everything I could to make my marriage stable, but he grew wilder day by day.”
My parents tried to intervene. They tried to talk to him, to reason with him, but he wouldn’t listen.
He was lost in his own darkness. Then came the day that changed everything—an event I will never forget. CONTINUE READING