A motorcycle mechanic at a village in Tenwek, Bomet County is bitterly ruing his use of force to demand conjugal rights from his wife. This is after she overpowered and beat him up, forcing him to wail for help from neigbours who despite coming to his rescue could not stop laughing at him.

That Paul Kemboi, returned home high as a kite and still demanded to get intimate with wife did not amuse her, forcing her to express her anger rather robustly.

She turned down his advances, claiming that besides not being in the best of moods for intimacy, she also had a terrible headache. But a furious Kemboi would hear none of it; he insisted he must have unlimited access to what he believed was his right.

Tempers flared when Kemboi accused her of hoarding her honeypot and always coming up with lame excuses so as not to make love to him. Without knowing what was in store for him, he turned turned forceful, claiming it was his conjugal right. What’s more, he claimed, she was his legal wife and had paid dowry to her parents.

Unfortunate for him, she turned tables on him and clobbered him almost to a pulp. A relative who lives with the couple said, like on this day, it had been Kemboi’s custom to come home drunk and cause trouble. Upon arrival this particular evening, he woke up his wife who was fast asleep and demanded that she warms his meal, which she did albeit grudgingly.

Drunken stupor

After retiring to bed, the couple are reported to have begun squabbling, with Kemboi allegedly demanding intimacy. The disagreement generated into a fierce outburst as the two exchanged bitter words. “What did I marry you for? I will not entertain your excuses anymore, I expect my needs as a husband to be met,” he was overheard by the relative whining, in his drunken stupor.

The woman is believed to have opened the Pandora’s box by flatly refusing to play ball. Unfortunately this prompted a furious Kemboi to beat her and attempt to throw her out of the house.

It’s at this point that things took an ugly turn, with the skinny and tipsy Kemboi being physically overpowered. The woman, who is said to be rotund, wrestled him to the ground and sat on him whilst raining blows on him.

The overpowered Kemboi began wailing to attract the attention of the live-in relative and neighbours. The woman explained to the neighbours what had happened, even as some unsuccessfully suppressed laughter and made light of the matter.

With his nose bloodied, Kemboi couldn’t do much but to sheepishly look on as neighbours warned him against drinking too much, coming home late and turning himself into a nuisance to his wife.

However, some appalled neighbours defended Kemboi and wondered why his wife went to such an extent.

“It’s culturally unacceptable for a wife to beat her husband, she needs to apologise, lest the family gets jinxed,” an irritated neighbour is quoted to have said.

After the disgraceful drama, uneasy calm has since returned in the home. Unfotunately for Kemboi, he has since been turned into a laughing stock at the workshop where he operates from in Bomet Town.