Kenya: I chopped it off after my wife denied me sex

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It was a sad day on Valentine’s Day for a thika sugarcane vendor who shocked the country by cutting his wife’s breasts before slashing off his 24 year old genitals and throwing them out of the house. He now wishes his manhood could be stitched back. Duncan Moseti says he regrets his actions, claiming he turned the knife on his wife of two years after she denied him sex. He claims he was not in control of his senses in the heat of the moment. He now asks for forgiveness from his 20-year-old wife, Margaret Achieng, and both their families. The father of one spoke for the first time at the Thika Level 5 Hospital where he’s recovering. He clarified that his actions were not provoked by an alleged affair between his wife and his brother as he had earlier claimed. “I became angry because my wife kept denying me sex no matter how much I pleaded with her. I could not take it anymore,” Moseti told The Nairobian.

 He says that reality finally dawned on him when he realised he could never be a ‘full’ man, let alone demand conjugal rights. “I’m begging my wife not to leave me because of what happened,” Moseti pleaded. “I want her to remain with me even in my current condition,” he added. Catherine Muihia, the Chief Nursing Officer at Thika Level 5 Hospital, told The Nairobian that the damage was too severe. “It was not possible for the genitals to be re-attached because he took too long to come to hospital after chopping off his manhood.

The blood supply has also been cut off, which means he can no longer perform his ‘manly duties,’” nurse Muihia revealed. Achieng, who has since been discharged from hospital, has ruled out any chance of reconciling with Moseti. “Though I love him very much, there is no way I can go back to him after what he did to me and to himself. I fear he can do even worse things to me. It is the end of our marriage,” she asserted.

Achieng, an orphan, denied ever having an affair with her husband’s brother and termed the allegations by Moseti as a joke. She is also seeking out her extended family in Siaya County to help her return to her ancestral home in Alego Kogelo. “I have no any money on me and I do not know people around here having come here just two weeks ago,” she said. Moseti’s brother, George Bosire, who was at the centre of the infidelity drama described the allegations as “malicious propaganda.” “There is no way I can sleep with my brother’s wife. It is a taboo in our culture and I would not even contemplate it,” he said.