BY SAM ALFAN.
Estranged wife of Meru Senator MaryAnn Kittany has told Chief Magistrate Peter Gesora that she entered into relationship with senator Mithika Linturi because i trusted him.
Kittany further told the court that matters of the heart cannot be questioned and relationship are about trust.
“Relationships are about trust and that is the key pillar, I trusted Linturi,” Ms Kitany said as she was being cross-examined by lawyer Muthomi Thiankolu.
She denied luring the senator into sexual escapades at Sopa Lodge with an aim of getting his properties. The jovial Kittany dismissed claims by Linturi’s lawyers that he has never been to Sopa Lodge in Naivasha.
While responding to Linturi lawyer, Kittany reiterated her earlier testimony that she was with Linturi at Sopa Lodge and they had been there severally even after that day.
“We were together at Sopa Lodge having quality time. We went back several times after that,” Kittany told the court.
She added that, they obtained the properties in question during the subsistence of marriage.
Kitany who dodged some questions saying that there are experts who will testify in the case, said that her witnesses from Meru who attended their traditional marriage in Nandi have been threatened by the lawmaker adding that Linturi stole her relative’s tittle deeds to secure loans with Family Bank.
“I will stick to my testimony, Linturi stole properties belonging to my relatives without my knowledge and forged signatures” Kittany said.
A jovial Kittany dressed in a maroon burgundy dress, accused the Meru senator of fraud by taking the documents without her permission and forging petition to show that he was in the process of divorcing his wife –Mercy Kaimenyi.
Among the witnesses that Kitany claims that they have been threatened include the master of ceremonies, who accompanied the Senator from Meru.
She was taken to task over claims that chewing of miraa signifies or constitutes to marriage but she stuck to her story saying the partaking of Mursik and chewing of miraa was part of cementing their union.
Kitany said the ceremony was initially planned for April 16, 2016 but Linturi asked it to be brought forward to fall on the Easter season and was thus held on March 26, 2016 at their Kapchemosin village in Nandi South.
On the issue of her wealth, she said that she earned her money, invested the money and bought pieces of land. She testified that after she was fired from the Deputy President’s office, she started working as a CEO at Atticon Limited adding that Linturi used to pay her “little money”.
Kittany told the senator lawyer she had made money prior to joining the office of the deputy president as chief of staff.
Lawyer Muthomi for Linturi argued that engagement and marriage are not the same things, ruling out Kitany’s document showing the court an engagement invitation.
Muthomi said all documents on customary marriage shown by Kitany had different dates, hence showing inconsistency.
But Kittany told him that in Nandi culture Koitok both engagement and marriage are same thing.
The divorce proceedings will proceed on the fifth day tomorrow before Milimani Commercial Magistrate Court.
