Papers showing I divorced my wife are forgeries, claims Senator

Meru Senator Mithika Linturi says documents presented in court by Ms Marianne Kitany, a former chief of staff at Deputy President William Ruto’s office, showing he had divorced his wife Mercy Kaimenyi are forgeries.

In a case to be heard on Tuesday, Mr Linturi says he is still married to Ms Kaimenyi.

He has attached certificates to show he married Ms Kaimenyi on April 8, 2000, at Tigania Catholic Parish in Meru when he was only aged 31, and was in insurance business, while she was a teacher.

A January 10 letter by the Deputy Registrar of the Family Division of the High Court, Ms C. Kendagor, says a divorce cause quoted by Ms Kitany, showing that Mr Linturi and Ms Kaimenyi had parted ways, refers to another matter and not between Franklin Mithika and Mercy Kaimenyi.

The letter was a response to a request by Mr Linturi through his lawyer Muthomi Thiankolu, to determine the genuineness of the divorce petition filed in Meru court.

MARRIED TO ONE WOMAN

The senator has maintained that he is only married to one woman and not Ms Kitany.

“I am in a monogamous relationship with only one woman who is not Kitany,” he says.

Last week, Justice John Onyiego restrained the senator from evicting Ms Kitany from their Runda home in Nairobi and ordered the preservation of properties jointly owned by the two, pending the determination of a case she has filed