Appeal
A 64-year-old ailing woman is sleeping in the cold hungry in Kiirungi sub location Gikondi division, Mukurwe-ini sub-county. Lucy Wambui Wambugu who is HIV+ has been sleeping on the weed within her small undeveloped land bequeathed to her by late parents Benson Wambugu and Mary Theru.
“I have been sleeping here for the past 16 days since my arrival from Nyeri after my third marriage to a Muslim collapsed, when I declined to convert to Islam as my husband and his relatives demanded,” Wambui told KNA pointing at the place she slept until Saturday, June 9, 2024.
Currently and despite the cold weather and her poor health status, Wambui is sleeping hungry in a ramshackle structure she constructed using polythene bags and sacks donated to her by an empathetic, but needy neighbour. She lamented that many are the times she was sleeping hungry, and she would sometimes suffer severe dizziness and even faint after taking the many anti-retroviral drugs on empty stomach.
Wambui said she had been married for three times adding the first two unions collapsed after she failed to give birth.
“Children are very much valued in Kikuyu land. My first marriage in Kirinyaga County lasted for ten years and when it became crystal clear I could not conceive, I was chased away with nothing,” she said, while fighting tears.
She said the second marriage in Tetu, Nyeri County could also not work after the husband demanded she brings forth children for him. “As was the case with the first marriage, this one too did not work and once again I was forced out with nothing after several years,” she regretted.
Wambui is now appealing to well-wishers to come to her rescue by constructing a small house to shield her from the chilling weather vis-à-vis her poor health.
“I also need foodstuffs as I take many drugs to keep me alive, as well as beddings and some cash for bus fare to hospital for drugs and treatment,” she stressed, adding she had previously been admitted to Othaya level 6 and Nyeri referral hospitals.
Wambui could be reached via her immediate neighbour, Elizatheth Wamuyu, Mobile No. 0723361903.