A young lady from Nakuru county, who lives in a deplorable state, has opened up about her challenges. Nakuru woman Margaret Wairimu Nyambura carries her newborn as she displays her shelter in the bush. Margaret Wairimu Nyambura settled in a bush with her newborn after being abandoned by her lover. How old is Margaret Nyambura?
The 23-year-old mother of two was dumped while in the hospital, giving birth to her now one-month-old baby. Nyambura recounted how she met her lover, an elderly man, after she left her five siblings behind with their father. “After our mum’s death, life was tough for us. I had to take my siblings to our father so that I could look for a source of income.
I did some menial jobs that were not sustainable, and the working environment was toxic. One day, I went to a boda boda operator and asked him to get me a man. He then took me to the elderly man who was paralysed,” she said. They stayed together with the man who gave her food and shelter, which was Nyambura’s primary concern.
How did Nyambura end up in hospital? They got their firstborn son, and life continued well until Nyambura fell pregnant the second time. “At seven months pregnant, I asked him to lend me money to buy baby clothes. He became rude, telling me he was tired of helping my family back home despite my siblings having a father.
He hit me with his walking stick before a neighbour came to my rescue and took me to hospital. My unborn baby’s life was in danger, and so I had to be operated on, and the baby was put in the incubator,” she recalled. Why did Nyambura’s lover move to another house? Her lover had found a bigger house somewhere else, and he said he wanted them to move to accommodate the ever-growing family. Nyambura had left her firstborn son behind as she got treatment at the hospital.
“My neighbour who had taken me to hospital told me that my lover failed to return home and he had already gone with everything, leaving us languishing in poverty. I sent my firstborn to my father as I remained with the little one. I could not find a place to stay, and this is how I found myself here,” she heartbreakingly noted.
by John Green
