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Politician Karen Nyamu has maintained her denial of domestic violence charges in the wake of concerns expressed when she was photographed in public with facial injuries.
Even the singer Samuel Muchoki aka Samidoh, the father of her two children, has been accused of attacking her by some admirers, to which the UDA senator has responded.
On Facebook, one fan wrote to her saying, "They said you were beaten by Samidoh."
Nyamu who is known to be very sarcastic in her responses to netizens and said, "Na tarimbo."
Another Facebook user wrote, "Washow you maybe you were beaten by Dickson Munene, my favorite." She then replied, "They pretend they don't know."
On Sunday night, Senator Nyamu refuted online rumors that domestic violence was to blame for the black eye she had in a picture that went viral.
"You know I'm not a person who cares about what they say about my personal life or anything. Whatever you want to say about me, you know it's useless. Sicatch, I don't care because I don't have any issues at all. In fact, when you don't talk to me, I look at you with a little worry."
Karen Nyamu spoke to online users in a live Facebook session where she addressed questions regarding her eye and disclosed the difficulty she is going through. Karen went on to say in the ten-minute video;
"But there is something that has caught my attention. It is a picture that we took on Friday at an event in Nyeri at the Office of Scouts and Girl Guides where the speaker of the Senate was the chief guest at the closing ceremony and so we were accompanied by him and several senators and this picture was taken it covered one of my eyes, whatever then I don't know what's wrong.
So people make fun of sexual violence, especially those people don't like me, they think that sexual violence is something that you can use to respond to a conflict or something that you should wish on your enemies and these are women. We cannot be this stupid in this day and age.
Gender-based violence is a serious issue, it affects 40 percent of women in Kenya as in Africa it affects women more than men," she insisted.
