KENYAN FEMALE MP GETS MARRIED AS SECOND WIFE

Businessman Peter Waweru has confirmed that he is officially hooked up to Laikipia woman representative Cate Waruguru.

Waweru is a seasoned businessman running overseas businesses for shipping and consolidations of goods with a clearing and forwarding company known as Sunrise Investments group ltd.

The bloke who is the current Kirinyaga County Chamber of Commerce chairman said he wants people to respect his decision and to identify Waruguru as his official second wife.

“Cate is my wife and people should stop saying we are dating or whatever they say. She is my wife and we live together,” he said.

Waweru added that both Cate’s parents and his are officially aware of their union and that he has paid part of the customary dowry known as ‘kuhanda ithigi’

Waweru said he was married to Zipporah Njoki, who works at the Kenya Bureau of Standards Mombasa county, but they separated two years ago but makes it lucid that she is hitherto his ex-wife since they are in the divorce process.

“Cate is no longer my girlfriend and that nonsense of we are cohabiting should stop. Those are allegations.”

Last week on Wednesday, videos of a dramatic scene said to have happened in Bamburi were shared on social media, where Cate allegedly attacked the ex-wife of Waweru.

Her man denies the claims.

“I have three kids and since I’m taking care of them, I had visited my children and later stories were shared online that I had gone there to beat her. I was accompanied by my sister and Cate was not there,” he said.

And he alleges Vengence and politics as behind their woes

“There is a female politician who was pursuing me but failed terribly, so they are using this story to fight Cate and her political position.”

On how he met Cate, Waweru said they started as friends.

“Since she was single and I was not comfortable with my marriage due to irreconcilable differences, mostly alcoholism issues,” he said

Adding that,

“We differed because of that and I decided to leave and look for a legal way to take care of my children.”

Njoki and Waweru have been married for 10 years. Waweru said their parents tried to resolve the issues but it was not possible.

She denied the allegations she is a drunkard, saying Waweru had disowned his family for Cate.

“The last time his parents came is when I had given birth, and that is when the story was all over that he was with Waruguru,” she said.

“Later he left with the parents and came back, confessed to me that he wants to marry a second wife, who is Waruguru. He told me I have to either accept Waruguru to be the second wife or I leave that house. And I declined and he left completely.”

Njoki alleged that Peter visited their matrimonial home accompanied by Cate Waruguru last week on Wednesday and beat her up.

“How I came to know it was her, I snatched her scarf. The issue is under police investigation. He has completely neglected us with his kids.”

The legislator was previously married to Nanyuki-based lawyer, Kiprotich William Kiget as reported by the Daily Nation on July 15, 2018. Kiget hails from Kericho County and is an advocate at the Nanyuki High Court.

He is an alumnus of Kabianga High School and studied law at the University of Nairobi, and later at the University of Mangalore, India.

In December 2017 Waruguru stunned Kenyans when she revealed that she was happy being a second wife.This was after President Uhuru Kenyatta signed into law the Marriage Act 2014, which legalized polygamy.

“You saw the president signing into law the Marriage Act the other day. As women, we must refrain from being distracted by societal decisions,” she argued.

In July 2018, Waruguru and her husband, William, were turned away from a Kericho hotel for failure to produce a marriage certificate. Waruguru had accompanied her husband to Kericho, to visit her inlaws before the incident ensued.

By Jalang’o TV