Villagers in Kapsir, a rural outpost in Boito area in Kericho County, are yet to wrap their minds around probably the shortest marriage and most bizarre separation case ever to happen in their locale.
This is after, perhaps desperate for the slightest of reasons to walk out of her two-month arranged marriage, a woman fed up with her dirty and inconsiderate husband separated from him due to his habit of farting in bed, among other pet peeves.
It is alleged that the man, a tea picker only identified as Serut, is so averse to bathing that his wife had to literally beg him to do so every evening and morning.
Tired of pleading with the alleged alcoholic and chain-smoker to observe personal hygiene, the long-suffering woman is believed to have been looking for a way out of the marriage.
The 27-year-old woman, only identified as Jackie, left village mates in stitches after she claimed she could not live with a dirty man who loudly breaks wind in bed and at times laughs about it without apologising or even minding his partner’s feelings.
Perhaps to prove that hell has no furry like a woman scorned, the pissed off woman bore it all to relatives and neigbours, telling them how her husband has to be begged to shower, brush his teeth, change underwear, among other basics, just like a small child.