BY IRENE ONYANGO.
A woman supposedly to be the daughter of Simeon Nyachae has disowned the late politician maintaining that her father is a Kenyan born American.
Patricia Moraa Odero dismissed claims by her mother- Margaret Kerubo Chweya- insisting that she is a daughter of George Gordon Odero and not Nyachae as alleged.
The Los Angeles based Odero High Court judge Eric Ogolla that she has no doubt that her father is Odero, after conducting a DNA test. She insisted that she has a close relationship with Odero.
“My dad and I did a cheek swap DNA test and sent to the samples to the Los Angeles hospital via mail after which I received the same results online as well as my dad,” she stated.
According to Moraa, her mother and father had been having family disputes and since she was two years old. She said this was after her father sought to have her sole custody.
She told Judge Ogola that at the time, her mother was suffering financially and she doubted if she could have raised her comfortably despite fighting for shared custody with the father.
Moraa narrated to the court that she had no interest in the dispute between her mother and the Nyachae family, because she was already knew her father.
She said she had on several occasions refused to sign documents related as requested by her mother.
“My mother sent me a WhatsApp message on 22nd March 2022 of a last page of a document with my name and that of my brothers that I refused to sign because I didn’t want to associate myself with the suit since I knew my dad,” said Moraa.
She then further told the court that she agreed to participate in the succession case after she discovered that her name was mentioned in the suit.
Odero said she joined the proceedings as a witness to disassociate herself with the suit as well as state the truth.
Margaret is contesting her exclusion and that of her three children, including Odero from the list of beneficiaries of Nyachae’s estate, estimated to be worth Sh2 billion estate.
The woman claimed she was customarily married to Nyachae in 1973 and that she bore him three children -Rodney David, John Paul Chweya and Patricia Odero.
The daughter denied the late Nyachae saying she does not know him.
While questioned by Margaret’s lawyer, Danstan Omari, Moraa responded that her name is and has always been Patricia Moraa Odero and any name with Nyachae isn’t hers.
She informed that court that she’s aware of her mother’s flee from Kenya but just as it is and no more information was provided to her concerning why she fled.
She concluded by telling the court that her mother had done the best she could as a mother and that she loves her mother, but that doesn’t prompt her from standing her truth and still loving her mother with the sake exact measure even if that affects their relationship.
“I love my mother and I hope even her deep in her heart somewhere understands that, but I don’t have to support everything that she says. I can love her abd still stand my truth,” said Moraa.
Randolph, a private investigator that was hired by Leon Nyachae to follow up the marital background of Margaret Kerubo Chwea Nyachae, informed the court that he came across two different marriage certificates with different men associated to Kerubo.
The investigator who was testifying virtually, told the court that he found a certificate with George Gordon Odero and James Leroy Tote as Margaret’s spouses in the United States of America.
He informed the court that Kerubo was married to Gordon on 11th April 1987 and that the certificate was consummated in the state of Nevada and that of Leroy was acquired on 22nd July 1989.
According to Randolph, he went further to try to locate any association with the late Nyachae in the USA to no avail.
