The news that Gilgil MP Martha Wangari had divorced and evicted her husband hit her constituency like a thunderbolt and spread like bush fire.
Wangari, in a candid interview with a weekly tabloid, laid bare the embarrassing details of her family.
For a Member of Parliament to go public about beatings by her husband is not easy.
Many prefer to keep such details under wraps due to the stigma and embarrassment such details carry.
The sassy MP said she had decided to go public after fears that she would be killed.
The story has created a heated debate among her electorates and Nakuru residents.
Some blame it on power and money. This class of thought believes when a woman gets money and power, her marriage is on the brink of collapse.
Some however lauded Wangari for the bold move, saying anybody, regardless of his status in society, can die out of an abusive marriage.
And though Wangari accuses her husband of adultery and cruelty, sources close to her husband claim the man turned wife batterer after suspecting his wife, now enjoying trappings of power, was enjoying the cookie with other men.
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