Love has gone sour leading to an ugly separation between highly respected Kenyans. Meru senator Mithika Linturi and his wife Marianne Keitany are headed for a nasty split after Kitany formally filed for divorce
Keitany, a former powerful Chief of Staff at the Office of the Deputy President William Ruto wants their union with dissolved for cruelty, neglect, infidelity and desertion.
According to the divorce papers filed at the Chief Magistrate’s Court at Meru, the two were married in a customary marriage under Meru and Nandi customary law on 16th April 2006 at Kapchemosin village, Nandi County.
Meru senator Mithika Linturi and his wife Marianne Keitany met, fell in love and got married quietly in the corridors of power.
However, in the high-profile divorce suit, Keitany accuses Linturi of among other things failing to provide her with any or at all emotional support, love, affection and care.
He is also not buying Keitany and her children food.
Linturi has instead lost all family values and has transferred his love and affection from her to other women, Kitany says in the court documents supporting her divorce plea.
To demonstrate the senator’s cruelty, Keitany says on several occasions, Linturi would snatch and smash her mobile phone in rage leaving thereby cutting off communication.
She accuses her husband of having illicit affairs with other women outside the wedlock as well as having another family elsewhere.
“I have now learnt he married sometimes early 2018 and is currently cohabiting with another woman,’ she says adding that she is currently on daily medication for depression and psychotherapy as a result.
The respondent [ Linturi] has denied the Petitioner her conjugal rights causing mental anguish and torture as well as humiliating the Petitioner,” says Keitany through her lawyer in the court suit.
In her material evidence before court, Keitany says Linturi is a habitual deserter of the matrimonial home and in fact did so on or about five times each ranging from about two weeks to six months.
Further, Keitany says the senator is constantly communicating with other women including exchanging nudity, vulgar and pornographic images and videos thus causing her immense mental anguish.
“I had on several occasions been exposed to venereal diseases and STD’s of various kinds and when I confronted him to accompany me for treatment he threatened me with death,” she said.