Former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga has narrated how the 2013 presidential election almost cost his nephew’s marriage.
Speaking to the Sunday Nation, Mutunga said that the families had met to plan on dowry payment and the wedding on the day the verdict of the petition was to be delivered.
The petition had been filed by ODM leader Raila Odinga to challenge President Kenyatta’s victory.
“On March 30, 2013, my nephew and my family were meeting somewhere in Muthaiga. My nephew was going to get married – and he did – to a girl from Mukurweini. The two families were in Muthaiga discussing dowry and the wedding arrangements,” Mutunga narrated.
He said that the meeting was stopped so that they could listen to the judiciary’s ruling on the petition.
“They had to stop to listen to the verdict. The moment we decided in favor of Jubilee, the Mukurweini people started singing their songs and dancing while the Kambas became very upset with me and my family,” Mutunga said.
“I think some people said rude things about me. The meeting almost collapsed the relationship,” he added.
The two families managed to reach an agreement about two months later, and the wedding eventually took place.
“I was invited to talk to the people in the church… I gave them a lecture and said, ‘You are the people who are ruining this country.” These kids fell in love, you were not there when it happened and you are talking about dowry and marriage. And then their petition almost rocks their relationship and marriage’,” Mutunga recounted.
The former CJ further said that justice is difficult since your own relatives can also think that you were bribed.
After the 2013 General Elections, president Uhuru Kenyatta and DP William Ruto were announced winners.
Odinga moved to court to challenge the victory citing massive and significant failures of the biometric voter registration (BVR) kits.
Mutunga and his panel declared that President Kenyatta and DP Ruto had been validly elected.
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