Phone service texts threaten to break marriage

A woman who has been married for three years in Rukuriri Market, Embu County landed in trouble after her husband’s nephew subscribed to a love messages service through her mobile phone. The woman started receiving love messages, making her husband suspicious. “Who sent you this message? Do you think I will keep you here and watch you engage in affairs?” This was always followed with kicks and blows. Unknown to her husband, the subscriber was his nephew who had visited them some few weeks earlier. So serious were the ?ghts that the village elders were called.
“I started receiving such text messages when his nephew was here. I’m not interested in other men because I love him,” she told the elders. She revealed that she had been unable to stop the messages. “Every time he comes home he must check my phone messages and call history to check who I have communicated to,” she said. It was when we were listening to the elders when a recently graduated teacher who teaches at the same school with the father of two arrived and ordered he be offered the phone to help unsubscribe from the service. The elders questioned the two closely and realised the woman was saying the truth. They sought help from a neighbour who knew how to unsubscribe the service. Only after receiving a con?rmation message did the woman feel relieved. The husband apologised for misunderstanding his wife. He, however, warned not to give out her phone to people who might subscribe to such services. “Even if it is your sister, let her tell you what she wants then you do it for her. If you don’t know how to go about it — leave it undone,” he warned.
-The standardmedia