Over 1.5 million Kenyan men are battered by their wives. It has been revealed that many men suffer domestic abuse from their spouses in silence. A new research shows that domestic violence against men has substantially shot up. Normally it is widely held that women are always the victims but today women are also perpetrators of domestic abuse and violence.

Notably women will share with their friends in case they are battered by their husbands but men in most occasions opt to keep quiet hence leaving the abuse by women against men in the dark. As usual there has to be a specific place that takes toll, Central province leads in physical abuse by women against men, at 72 percent. Nairobi is second at 60 percent.

The abuse includes injuries and emotional abuse such as battering, verbal abuse, denial of conjugal rights and being forced to do house chores. Others are even raped and inflicted with bodily injuries besides being insulted. More than 60 per cent of the women interviewed in 40 districts nationally admitted that they had physically abused their husbands.

According to the survey, most of those affected were newly weds and those in old marriages. Their research found that men had little say on issues concerning conjugal rights because women were the ones who determined when and how they should make love.