Drunken wife breaks arm

By Hilary Wesonga

A middle-aged woman is nursing a broken arm at a Kisumu hospital after she fell from the perimeter wall of her rental house while drunkenly trying to gain access to the compound.

Awinja had on several occasions managed to climb over the wall after coming home late at night while under the influence.

This is because Mark, her husband, had ordered her not to wake him or the children when she comes home late from her drinking escapades.

He had also advised her that if she drinks into the wee hours of the morning, she’d better sleep at the bar.

The couple have been married for ten years. Their marriage was blissful until Awinja turned to drinking.

Singing traditional song

Awinja would leave Mark in the house with their children and disappear only to return drunk and disorderly, as the police say.

But as she went out, to avoid being disturbed, Mark would switch off his mobile phone.

On that day, Awinja came home at about 2am in the morning, singing a traditional song, which she punctuated with, "You think am drunk? Then you have not looked at yourself!"

She tried calling her husband but his phone was switched off.

Left with little choice, Awinja stepped on the bin that was always put outside the gate and got to the top of the wall.

Fell with a thud

Hell broke loose at this point. She was too tipsy to get her leg over the wall as usual and she fell back outside with a thud, breaking her arm and bleeding from her mouth and nose.

Mark was woken up by one of his neighbours who informed him his wife lay outside his gate.

He wasn’t bothered and was reluctant to go out and investigate.

"When she becomes sober, she will wake up and come in," was all he told the neighbour.

But when he heard she was bleeding, he changed his mind.

Mark found an excited crowd and quickly realised they were ogling at his half-naked. Her skirt had flipped upon her falling.

"I wish you had broken the legs that take you to bars," he scoffed.

"She is your wife for heavens sake!" exclaimed an old woman while reaching for her lesso to cover Awinja.

But Mark sneered, saying the drunken "thing" lying in the dust could not be called a wife.