Kenya: Woman With Two Marriage Certificates Loses Sh19 Million Shares in Family Row

A woman whose husband died four years ago will not benefit from Sh19.8 million shares he left behind after a judge ruled that her earlier marriage was still subsisting even after conducting a traditional divorce.

Ms Rose Katunge married Prof Stephen Musembi Nzuve in 2010. This was shortly after she divorced Stephen Masika in a traditional way by returning the bride price -- traditionally together with a goat known as Mbuzi ya Maleo, to mark the dissolution of a marriage.

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