BY IRENE ONYANGO.
A man claiming to be the son of former cabinet minister Simeon Nyachae has told the High Court that he interacted with the late politician on many occasions.
Rodney David Chweya, who is based in the USA told Justice Eric Ogolla that Nyachae made frequent visits to their home in Los Angeles USA.
He further told the court whle being examined by his lawyer Danstan Omari that Nyachae paid for their school fees and upkeep through his mother Margaret.
“Whenever my father came home to visit us, he could give us things and give mother a brown envelope that I couldn’t understand what was at that time but later came to understand it was upkeep money,” said Rodney.
He informed the court that as he was growing up he couldn’t understand why they were away from his dad and step family from Kenya which he came to later understand that maybe it was because of the hostility.
The second son however couldn’t remember much of his alleged father since he was young.
Peter Onsongo, a man who had worked for Nyachae for 38 years also informed the court that he had known about Margaret Chweya Nyachae’s as the late politician’s fifth wife.
He said he was made aware of the family in 1992 when Nyachae allegedly told him that he had a wife in the US.
Further, he informed the court that he met Margaret in person later in 2021 at the funeral of Nyachae. He stated that he found Margaret crying at the gate questioning why she couldn’t be allowed to bury her husband.
Onsongo informed the court that he was interested to know if the lady was the wife she had heard was in the US.
Upon questioning by Omari, Onsongo told the court that it was impossible for the other co-wives to visit each other at their Nyaribo, Kisii home because the existing wife was not as friendly.
Johnson Omwenga Ndege, a security officer confirmed that a house in Loresho belonged to Margaret and Nyachae visited the house often times.
He informed the court that the house was in the name of the late Nyachae and to his knowledge, Nyachae was the man of the house.
Omwenga told the court that he could see Margaret escort Nyachae after his visitations to the car and that’s how he concluded he was the man of the house.
He also recognised two of Margaret’s son as Nyachae’s and said he had seen them before at their Loresho house.
Nyachae’s personal body guard Walter Omariba Okemwa also confirmed to the court that he had met Margaret at Nyachae’s riverside office when she came visiting.
He told the court that he had heard from other workers and his father who had worked for Nyachae’s father that there was another wife in the US and had assumed it was Margaret
