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| Ms Kezziah Ngima during an interview- Photo By Faith Nyamai |
BY
FAITH NYAMAI
@faithnyamai
nyamai@gmail.com
A
Nyeri woman has vowed to stop her estranged husband from legalizing his
marriage with his second wife in a church wedding on Saturday for refusing he
gives their 12 years old son his share of inheritance.
Ms
Kezziah Ngima,38 years old is threatening to obtain a court order by Friday
and in the event the order is not issued by then she storm the wedding
venue and declare to be the first customary married wife to Mr Danson Njuguna.
Her
separated husband Mr Njuguna is scheduled to legalize his marriage with his
second wife at the St Francis Asisi Catholic Church in Kasarani Nairobi.
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According to Ms
Ngima they had been customary married with Mr Njuguna from 2001 to 2010 and had
together born two children, one is the 12 years old son while the other child
died during delivery in 2006.
Ms Ngima said
the two came to know each other in 1998 when she was a student while Mr Njuguna
was her tutor at a college in Nakuru.
They visited her
parents and Mr Njuguna paid her dowry in April, 3, 2001 after which they moved
in together on a customary marriage as husband and wife living in Murang’a
where he comes from.
At the time, Ms
Ngima said she and her parents wanted they get married in church but they did
not because he and his parents claimed they did not have enough money to hold a
wedding.
“Disagreements
started when we moved to Nairobi in 2006 and I got pregnant for our second born
child,” she told the Daily Nation.
When her time to
deliver came, she was taken to the Kenyatta National hospital where she was
admitted, the doctors discovered a problem and they told her that it was a
rapture.
“The doctor said it was already too late and that lead to the death of our baby. The doctors also said because of the rapture I could no longer give birth and to safe my life my uterus had to be removed” she said.
“The doctor said it was already too late and that lead to the death of our baby. The doctors also said because of the rapture I could no longer give birth and to safe my life my uterus had to be removed” she said.
Mr Ngima said,
soon after recovery her husband started mistreating her and would many times
move out of their matrimonial home and started relating to another woman
claiming he cannot continue living with a barren woman.
“ In 2010 March
,he left our house and moved in with another woman, leaving me alone with our
son and he even went ahead and paid dowry for the second woman whom they are
living together and wants to legalize their wedding with on Saturday” explained
Ms Ngima.
She said, in
October 2010, she filed a case in court seeking that Mr Njuguna supports and
caters for the expenses of raising and educating their son.
On June 7, 2011
Nyeri resident Magistrate Joan Wambilyanga ordered Mr Njuguna to take his
parental responsibility of his son. The court also ordered him to educate and
pay for all medical expenses and a guardian up keep of Sh 10,000 per month and
the cost of the suit.
Ms Ngima said
that even after the ruling, Mr Njunguna has refused to support their son.
When contacted
through phone Mr Njuguna said he did not want to discuss anything with the
media.
Mr Njuguna said
because Ms Nguma is out to shame him, he has cancelled the planned wedding but
they will meet her on a separate place.
“I do not have
my side of story, because she has succeeded in stopping the wedding I have
cancelled it, I cannot stand that shame she wants to put me in,” said Mr
Njuguna.
He added “I have
talked to my lawyer and we shall be meeting her even if it is in court.”
The church is
expected to officiate mass weddings where 36 couples will formalize their
marriages.
Efforts to get a
comment from the priest in charge failed as call we placed went unanswered.
