In recent years, so many cases of women beating up men were being reported in different parts of Kiambu County.
For insatance, in November 2016 women numbering around 50, raided a drinking den at Kabete and savagely beat up their men.
The women claimed that many young men were normally leaving their homes each and every early morning, only to come home at the end of the day drunk and with nothing, yet they ask for food.
Since then, the cases have reduced and are rarely reported. But what are the reasons behind this change.
First, men have reduced alcohol consumption: The major reason why women were beating up men was alcohol. With the strict measures from the county government, including rehabilitating those who had been addicted in abusing drugs, men are only drinking responsibly.
Most men are under rehab care: Most men who could do nothing apart from drinking are now being monitored, mentored and watched in rehabs. The county government of Kiambu is currently rehabilitating more than 3000 alcohol addicts.
Men are now 'performing': While women were complaining now and then about their men getting lost into alcohol and not being able to give them their conjugal rights, such complaints are no longer being reported. This implies that men are performing effectively.
Most drinking dens were closed down by the government: Governor Waititu, while he was still the Kabete constituency MP, he led a group of youths to destroy harmful alcohol dens. Recently, he worked with Interior CS Dr. Fred Matiang'i to destroy a number of drugs in the county. These moves have diverted men from alcohol to business.
Once bitten twice shy: Yes, after the Kabete incident where men had to flee into a maize plantation to escape a thorough beating from their own women, it might be making them fearful when they remember the ordeal.