'Where is babu?' Mike Sonko's daughter Saumu opens up on family distress

Piece by: Grace Kerongo
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Former governor Mike Sonko's daughter Saumu Mbuvi has bared it all on-air today.

Saumu was in the studio with Radio Jambo's Massawe's mid-morning show where she spilled the beans on her relationship with Lamu Senator Anwar Loitiptip and what the family is going through with Sonko in hospital and facing terrorism charges.

Saumu said,

"As a family, we are going through trials. I don't know what the government is planning. AS a family we are exhausted, we spend our time in court and in hospital from morning till evening. We don't understand what they are using so much force on him."

She told Massawe that her firstborn daughter keeps asking where her grandfather is.

"Whatever they are doing to him let them know that there is karma. My daughter keeps asking, 'Where is babu,'  His condition is not good. He first got the hip injury when he went to help the people of Sinai and he was afraid to seek treatment and till recently when his condition deteriorated and he needed to seek urgent treatment."

Saumu also talked about the emotional and physical abuse she has undergone at the hands of her ex-lover Lamu Senator Anwar Loitiptip.

"First of all I want to say I have been battling with Bi-Polar for the last 8 years, it is a sickness where you have to deal with high intense emotions of happiness and other times sadness. During that time I haven't been hospitalised for long. But when I was in a relationship with him, I was undergoing emotional and physical abuse."

She added,

"I was not chased away, I left (his house). He would make fun of me. He said I was flawed because I had bi-polar, we were together for a year and a half. I don't know what he wanted from me, he was the one who wooed me. I don't know what he wanted from me."

Saumu continued,

"I used to see him as a friend, he would say my dad is his friend, I did not know he would use and leave me. At that time, due to the abuse, I would be hospitalised weekly. I did not want to keep quiet about it because I'm raising two daughters. I did not want them to grow up and accept abuse as normal."