“I pay your rent, I feed your children, yet you keep abusing my daughter.”
These are the words that echoed when former Nairobi Governor, Mike Sonko, confronted his “son-in-law” for abusing his daughter. He was not the man who left the mantle of Nairobi Governorship in disgrace; he was just a father who was irate at finding out his father had been abused by the man she was with.
And he was flanked by his security detail who made sure to occasionally remind the abusive “hubby” of the danger he was surrounded by with occassional slaps but I don’t think anyone would argue for his safety given he was simply facing the results of his “boxing prowess”.
And Sonko revealed alot in his soliloquiy; discussing how he was in fact, the one that pays their rent. He was the one who was educating both partners’ children. He was the one who fed their household yet the man his daughter had chosen was busy abusing her.
In na statement he released, Mike Sonko addressed the entire debacle saying,
“Today, we received a distress call from our daughter that shook us to the core her voice trembling, her spirit broken. As a parent, nothing prepares you for the moment your child reaches out in fear, in pain, or in desperation. I acted immediately, because no mother or father can sit still when their child is hurting.
And it made me ask myself If my own daughter can face harassment in her own home, what about the countless young women and men in Kenya who suffer silently, with no one to defend them
Marriage is never a smooth road. It is built through storms and sunshine, through patience, forgiveness, and understanding. But when challenges turn into violence, when love turns into fear, then the very foundation of that marriage is shaken. No one deserves that.
My heartfelt plea to young couples is this please, choose peace. Choose dialogue before anger. Choose to pause, breathe, and talk rather than hurt the person you vowed to protect. Violence doesn’t solve anything it only destroys the heart, the home, and the future.
Let us create homes where love is safe, where voices are gentle, and where differences can be solved without breaking each other. No parent should ever receive the kind of call we got today and no partner should ever cry alone in their own house.“
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