Dorcas Wambui tells her story of how her in-laws tried to force her to be their elder brother’s wife after the death of their husband and tried to disinherit her from inheriting her husband’s property since she refused to be the wife of her late husband’s brother.Â
Dorcas was employed by a family to work as a housekeeper, where she met her husband. One day, when Dorcas had gone to a funeral, neighbors found her husband unconscious on the road. She was called and she quickly dashed home and found her husband dead.Â
Dorcas said her husband was a loving and nice man. After their first child was born, her husband started having constant headaches. He would always go to the hospital where the doctors would normally give him medicine. The sickness would go away for a while, but after awhile, it would come back again.Â
After her husband was laid to rest, Dorcas’s in-laws came to her house and told her that his eldest brother was ready to inherit her and that she should immediately move to his house. Dorcas refused, saying she would not be married to anyone inherited by her late husband’s brother.
They told her that she would not know peace until she agreed. First, they took over all her late husband’s properties, their lands. Her late husband’s brother claims she’s her inheritance and must inherit her as his wife and make her his second wife.Â
Her in-laws did meet and asked her to submit herself to her late husband’s brother, else they would kill her and equally make life miserable for her before she died. One day, they stormed into her house at 2 p.m. and started beating her mercilessly. The following day, Dorcas packed all her belongings and left the home. She now takes care of the children alone.
She has requested people not to mistreat widows and orphans because God will always fight for them. She has refused to be inherited by her husband’s brother and now she has lost everything.
Content created and supplied by: Mainooco (via Opera
News )