Catherine Wahome, wife to the late former governor of Nyeri County Wahome Gakuru has admitted that she sired a child outside wedlock.
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DNA results confirm that the child was not Dr Gakuru’s.
"In her three-hour testimony at the Nyeri Magistrate’s Court, Mrs Wahome further admitted that he had sired a child outside their marriage, with DNA tests confirming this, " the Standard reported on its online portal.
The revelations were made in a court proceeding where the wife of the former county chief faces allegations of being behind his death.
Catherine said that in spite of the governor filing for divorce in 2013, the couple continued to live as husband and wife.
"He would come and go to our home in Runda depending on his work schedule. We lived like husband and wife despite the divorce petition in court, " Catherine Kirumba Wahome told a court.
Dr Wahome Gakuru perished last year as he was travelling from Nyeri to Nairobi where he was set for a television interview.
According to Catherine the divorce had not yet been solved at the time of the death of her husband.
She has been accused of being part of a wider conspiracy that involved his driver and personal assistant to kill the governor of Nyeri given the domestic differences that the two had.
It also became clear in the proceedings is that the late former county boss never listed her wife as the next of kin in the county’s pensions scheme.
Dr Gakuru was replaced by his deputy Mutahi Kahiga as the governor of Nyeri county.
