It seems Mzee Jackson Kibor can’t get tired of the limelight. It is barely one year since he devorced his wife of 52 years and mother to his eight children, Josephine Jepkoech.
The 86 year old farmer accused his ex-wife of denying him conjugal rights as the basis for the much publicized divorce suit.
But now Kibor has been caught up in another controversy involving another woman. This time he is being accused of eloping with another man’s wife in Eldoret.
Isaac Kosgey has recorded a statement with the police in Eldoret on OB No. 56 saying the businessman took away his wife of 17 years under unclear circumstances. Mercy Sultan, 30, has been missing for the past two weeks. She left with their two children.
Kosgey, an Equator flower farm worker, says he has been suspecting that Kibor has been moving with his wife. “He often gave her lifts in his car. Kibor’s relationship with my wife started two months ago and I suspect they met at her workplace,” Kosgey said.
The woman works at a shop dealing with herbal medicine where Kibor has reportedly been frequenting.
Kibor has however denied the allegations saying his age could not allow him to elope with someone’s wife further affirming that he did not know of Mercy’s whereabouts.
“Yes, I know her and I once gave a lift just like any other friends whom I know,” The old man told a local daily.
“I am a family man who cannot move with someone’s wife. Let Kosgei stop tarnishing my name as I even don’t know him in the first place.”
“He should stop making such claims. Let him search for his wife and children,” the politician added.
Kibor said that it was raining heavily on the day he offered Kosgey’s wife a lift. “She was in the company of other people. I had no other motive.”
Kosgey says his wife, days before her disappearance, had refused to be dropped at her workplace using their motorcycle as usual.
“I have been routinely dropping my wife to her workplace every morning and picking her up in the evening with my motorbike before she told me my services were no longer needed.”
He now wants Kibor to keep the woman but return to him his 12 and 6-year-old girls.
“The children have been missing school for some time and I need them back,” the jilted man said.
He regretted that his children did not sit the end of term examinations, hence, may not advance to the next class.