Retired Reverend Timothy Njoya has asked Nyeri court to charge the woman claiming to be his stepmother with contempt of court.
Mr Njoya claimed the woman discussed a pending land dispute through the media.
Through Kamau Kuria Advocates, Mr Njoya on Tuesday told Nyeri Senior Principal Magistrate Phillip Mutua that the woman, Ms Mary Maina, commented about the suit in a local daily.
“She was quoted verbatim in the newspaper on December 12, 2018 commenting about the case. She discussed it in the newspapers,” said lawyer Munyori Karanja, who represented Senior Counsel Kuria.
The retired PCEA cleric and Ms Maina have been fighting over the ownership of a four-acre parcel of land in Mukurweini, Nyeri County.
The land was initially owned by Mr Njoya’s father, Nahashon Murere, who died in 1996. Ms Maina has been pushing to be declared its legal owner on grounds that she is the widow.
Reverend Njoya, however, says she was his father house maid, not his wife.