Kenyan Maid Burnt by Lebanese Boss Finally Loses Battle to Stay Alive

 

On Friday, July 29, a Kenyan woman named Mary Kibawana Kamajo lost her three-month battle to stay alive. Kamajo, a Kenyan immigrant who worked in Lebanon as a house maid, was set ablaze in April of this year by her cruel Lebanese employer and left to die.

Just 31 years old, Kamajo had moved to the Middle East in search of the proverbial greener pastures. But with little formal qualification, she soon had to settle for a menial job working as a domestic maid for a Lebanese family. Like many Africans immigrants working in the Middle East she suffered constant discrimination in addition toverbal and physical abuse.

Kamajo says her Arab boss, his wife, and their daughter treated her very poorly. She recalls:

“My female boss and her daughter would often beat me for the most trivial of reasons. They would also give me bad food. I had no breaks from work and I would toil from 6 am daily to late in the night. They took my passport away the day I arrived and I had no access to a calendar so I never knew what day it was, let alone the time.”

The cruelty from Kamajo’s employers took a vicious, new turn earlier this year, however, when her boss willfully set her ablaze by igniting a gas cylinder, causing her serious burns. Kamajo remembers the day as the 17 of April. She says on that day, she was in the middle of her usual domestic chores when her employer attacked her with fire.

“My clothes and lower body immediately caught fire before it spread to my chest. I managed to run to the bathroom where I passed out,” Kamajo stated. She describes regaining consciousness only to find her boss still pouring invectives on her while kicking her around.

Mary Kibawana Kamajo, a Kenyan immigrant was attacked with fire by her Lebanese employer. Ghafla

The attack left Kamajo with extensive third-degree burns covering some 47 percent of her body. She was only rescued after a kind neighbour heard her screams and alerted the police, who rushed her to a hospital.

Kamajo was in a hospital in Lebanon for at least six weeks, and in that time she says her employer refused to inform her family back in Kenya about her ordeal; he also denied her access to a phone so that she could not directly contact her family members.

I would cry every day, begging the doctors and the nurses to send me home but nobody listened. I begged to be allowed to speak to the Kenyan embassy but the people in the hospital ignored me,” she said.

In the end, Kamajo was returned to Kenya with the assistance of a Kenyan lawmaker only after her condition had deteriorated significantly and she was on the brink of death. Upon arrival in Kenya, she was immediately taken to the Kenyatta National Hospital for intensive care.

Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of Kenyan medical personnel, Mary Kamajo did not make it out of the hospital alive. Her sad death came last Friday after enduring months of excruciating pain. She leaves behind four young children.

Source: Face Africa

Policeman rapes girl, begs victim’s family for forgiveness

                          

Fifteen-year-old Mary Udo has yet to recover fully after being allegedly raped by a police inspector penultimate Thursday.

However, the Divisional Police Officer, Mkpat Enin Police Division, on Wednesday, sent pastors and other police officers to the victim’s family to plead for forgiveness.

Udo was allegedly raped at gunpoint by the inspector while she was returning from church.

Udo’s uncle, Dr. Ime Stephen, who made the visit known to our correspondent, said he was surprised to see the clerics in his home who came to plead on behalf of the police inspector.

Stephen said the pastors, who described themselves as senior apostles, begged him to forgive the inspector, saying the rape case was a big shame not only to the personality of the inspector, but also to the image of the Nigeria Police Force.

Stephen said he reminded them he was not the rape victim, while adding that if the clerics and the police officers had come to see him as the guardian of the victim, he did not have any right to stop them from such visit.

He said the case was reported to the DPO and the family had expected the DPO to come personally and see the victim and apologise to the family given the seriousness of the alleged crime.

He said, “We sent a message across to the DPO as the head of that division, telling him what had happened, and as the head of that division, we had expected him to have come and apologise, or at least see the victim’s family and the victim, show some love and respect to the family because of what had happened in his jurisdiction.

“This is a very serious thing – police inspector raping a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint. This is more than robbery. He not only raped the girl, but he also ‘kidnapped’ her for three days, and collected a ransom of N10,000 as bail. What a shame!”

Stephen said the girl, apart from undergoing treatment in a hospital, also needed to be rehabilitated and undergo therapy.

Meanwhile, Udo, a Senior Secondary School 1 victim said she would never forgive the police officer for what he did to her, adding that she was still shocked by the wickedness of the police inspector.

“It was a harrowing experience. There is nothing on earth that would make me forgive the inspector,” she said.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Cordelia Nwawe, in her reaction, said she would not disclose the identity of the police inspector alleged to have raped Udo.

She said, “I would not like to give you the name of the police officer, but we are committed to duty at the headquarters through our Commissioner of Police, Mr. Murtala Mani. He has waded into the matter.

“Investigation is ongoing and I’m sure the policeman alleged to have raped the 15-year-old girl is in custody. When the investigation becomes very conclusive, we will get back to the press, hopefully by next week.”


Source: Punch

Victim of domestic violence speaks up, ' My pastor asked me to stay, pray for my marriage.'

If Kenyan women are serious and they aspire to one day have a female as a Kenyan president, they should not have remained as silent as they are now following what happened to this lady. This is worse than what Koffi Olomide did at JKIA, yet the outcry is nowhere compared to the the one that occurred following the Olomide kick.

Eeeiiiisssshhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! iYawa.....!!!!

How do you define this kind of love?
Ladies and gentlemen is this love or what?????

Mwende - "I don’t want my husband to go to jail; I love him. We have been through a lot together. He will change through prayers."

STICHES cover her once beautiful face, while puss seeps from her severely cut face. Her beauty has been tattered, and she may never look the same again. Both hands chopped off.

Despite all the pain she’s going through, Mwende is a woman in love, ready to forgive the man that almost killed her.

Mwende, narrates to Jarunda how her husband attacked her.

“Nothing really happened for him to beat me up like this. He is my husband and he really wants a baby, a man who wants a baby can do anything.” says Mwende.

“I found my hands on the bed,” she says.

“That’s how I lost my hands,” Mwende says.

                                                                  

She says this is the 4th time her husband has beaten her in the years that they have been together. Doctors said the problem was the husband, he is infertile.

“The first time he beat me up, he bit me on the cheeks. My phone rang at night and as I was about to answer, the line cut and he got suspicious and started biting me on both cheeks. That was the first time ever he behaved violently,” she says.

Mwende says her husband has been begging for forgiveness.

Despite all she has gone through, Mwende says she is more than willing to forgive him.

“I don’t want him to go to jail; I love him. All I want is for him to assist me financially to acquire good medical attention,” she says.

However, Mwende’s brother Emmanuel just wants her hysband to face the law.

“I just want him to face the law. If my sister wants him back, that’s her problem. She should not come running to us next time,” says Emmanuel.

Mwende is just one of the many battered women that suffer silently in the name of love. Many have silently died while protecting ‘criminals’ all in the name of LOVE.

How do you want to die? At the hands of a ‘loved one’, chose to live for you only have one life – only God should determine when you die but not some lunatic husband/wife boyfriend/girlfriend.

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