Mombasa woman married to two men granted divorce but ordered to return dowry

Salim Twota (left) walks out of the Kadhi Court in Mombasa with Rehema Dzuya Thursday. Mombasa Principal Kadhi Abdulhamin Athman dissolved their marriage, saying it was no longer tenable for them to live together. [PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD]

KENYA: The wish of a Mombasa woman who has been married to two men to be rescued from her loveless first marriage by the court was granted Thursday. However, Rehema Dzuya was ordered to return the Sh40,000 furniture her husband gave her as dowry.

But her husband, Salim Twota opposed the ruling. “I am not satisfied with the ruling of the Kadhi Court, which seems to favour my wife,” he said. He announced that he would appeal the annulment of his marriage to Rehema in the secular High Court because “I still love her.”