A Maseno University female student was allegedly beaten by her boyfriend on Wednesday night after a misunderstanding.
The student from the linguistics department sustained serious injuries in the hands of the boyfriend. The two had a misunderstanding after the boyfriend came back ‘home’ late and also owing to the fact that he was the one having the only key to the house.
After fruitless attempts to get the key through phone calls made to the boy, the lady decided to seek shelter from a lady neighbour. On coming back, the boyfriend demanded that the girlfriend go with him but when she resisted, he allegedly started beating her up.
The late-night shouts woke up the neighbours, including the landlord, who tried to intervene as the situation that was almost getting out of hand. The landlord decided to call the police after the boy became rowdy and failed to listen to him and his efforts to solve the matter amicably.
“I have taken the initiative of calling the police since this boy is not even my tenant. He beat up a woman and injured her badly. This is unacceptable,” said Ominde, the landlord.
The police arrived two hours later at the scene and arrested the boy, while the girlfriend was rushed to the varsity’s clinic.
Sources also said that the boyfriend, before beating up his girlfriend, had come from the famous Green Park (GP) residential houses where he also beat up the girlfriend’s friend over another misunderstanding.
“Alimchapa Ritah mpaka akamuingiza kwa closet”, (she beat her up and forced her into the closet), said the girlfriend’s friend. She added that the misunderstanding between these two at GP was caused by a laptop, which the boyfriend was purportedly borrowing, but the girl denied him.
Neighbours and eyewitnesses said that the two had only been together for a short.
“It is only three weeks since the guy moved in with the lady. The lady is the tenant of that particular room and the boyfriend has no moral authority to fight her there,” Jared Oduwo, a neighbour revealed.
The landlord, Ominde, said that if another incident of the sort happens, he will not have an option but to evict both the tenant and the visitor.