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Kenyan Woman Married To Nigerian Seeks Help To Return Home
Rael Muthoni Njeru, a 26-year-old Kenyan residing in Nigeria, is begging for help so she may go back to her parents’ house.
This comes after her husband, a Nigerian, vanished from sight a month earlier, leaving her and their child behind.
The woman informed TUKO.co.ke that she is being threatened by her husband’s family, who want to take her child away.
“His family said that if I do not provide my child for them within three weeks, they will take my daughter,” Njeru said tearfully.
Muthoni claims that after her spouse vanished, leaving his phone behind, and hasn’t been seen again, her problems got worse.
Njeru is unsure of what to do because their landlord is threatening to evict them and their rent is past due.
“I am contemplating fleeing to the Kenyan embassy in Lagos, but it is a 12-hour drive from where I currently reside,” she stated.
Muthoni’s marriage to her divorced spouse started in Nairobi in 2018 and they have been together for about four years.
They dated for a year before getting married in 2020. In June 2021, she and he relocated to Nigeria.
“I want to come back to Kenya and take care of my children in peace,” Muthoni said.
She said that, in addition to the two-year-old daughter she has with her current husband, she also has an eight-year-old daughter from a former relationship.
She stated that she is in urgent need of assistance to return home for her and her children’s safety, as her passport is missing and she has no means of securing transportation.
Despite reaching out to her family for assistance, Muthoni’s parents are unable to aid owing to financial difficulties.
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