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Anger is a blinding element. It robs an individual of all senses of reasoning and makes one act like an object under maddening influence. This same anger prompted a woman in Kirinyaga county, Central Kenya, has been declared wanted by the police after she doused her sleeping husband with kerosene and set him ablaze following a a domestic quarrel that occurred between the two of them.

According to the report, the man had earlier had a fight with his wife and after they were settled, thought everything was okay, not knowing she still held a grudge against him. In the night, while he slept in the family house at Mwombao village, the wife  sprinkled kerosene on him and lit the fire. Neighbours said they were woken up by the cries of the man and when they rushed to the home, they found him in flames with the wife already gone.

“We heard the couple quarreling, but few hours later, the man started screaming for help. When we responded we found him burning. We rescued and rushed him to Embu Level Five hospital,” one of the neighbors said. County deputy police commander, Charles Ontita, said the woman went missing as soon as she had attacked her husband and that the police are looking for the woman, adding that she would be charged with assault if arrested. The police claimed all effort is being made to track her down and that they had spread their nets all across the country in search of her wherever she might have run to.

In another news, a husband has set his wife ablaze for giving birth to only female children in succession. The housewife in Abakiliki, Ebonyi State, Mrs. Monica Nwakpuke, was set ablaze by her husband, purportedly to teach her how to give birth to male children. Before the incident, the husband, Paul Nwakpuke, a patent medicine dealer, had allegedly hired some assassins to kill his wife so he could get married to a woman who will give him a son but when the plan A failed, he fell back to plan B which was to set her on fire.

According to reports, the three assailants laid ambush for Monica outside her father’s home and when she came out to ease herself, they descended on her, blindfolded her, beat her black and blue and kidnapped her.

On their way, when they found out that she was not dead, they sprinkled her with fuel, and set her on fire. They reportedly told her that her husband sent them to kill her. When they discovered that she had been severely burnt to the extent that she may not survive it, they abandoned her and ran from the scene. But as luck would have it, some passersby found her and took her took her to the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, where she is battling to stay alive. According to the police, the husband has been on the run but promised he would soon be arrested and brought to book for his crime.