Piece by: Samuel Maina

27 June 2023

• Nyamu denied rumours on the internet that his black eye seen in the photo that went viral on the internet was due to domestic violence.

Nominated Senator Karen Nyamu has continued to deny allegations of domestic violence following concerns raised after she was seen in public with bruises on her face.

Recently, there have been claims that the mother of three may have been beaten, an act that left her with bruises near her eye.

Some fans have even claimed that the father of her two children, singer Samuel Muchoki aka Samidoh is the one who attacked her, a claim 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 evening, Senator Nyamu denied rumours on the internet that her black eye seen in a photo that went viral on the internet was the result of domestic violence.

"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 addressed netizens in a live session on Facebook where she answered concerns about her eye and opened up about the challenge she is facing. In the 10-minute video, Karen continued;

"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.