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Army boss demands pay from politician who ‘stole’ his pretty wife

 

Lilian Chana is at the center of the drama 

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A retired senior army officer, who is also a university lecturer, is demanding Sh3.7 million he allegedly spent on a campus law student who cheated on him for two years with the knowledge of her politician mother, The Nairobian can reveal.

The shocking love triangle which played out in Nairobi pitting two elderly men and a young woman from the same village is not only in court but has been tabled before Inchama, the revered Kuria Council of Elders.

Lilian Chana, in her mid 20s, met Chacha Marwa, a university lecturer and retired army officer with whom she has a baby, in 2010 and later introduced the 60-plus-year-old to some members of her family as her future husband.

But Chacha claims he didn’t know that Lilian would stay with him till midnight and then sneak into the arms of Marwa Kemero Maisori, a businessman and aspiring Kuria East politician in the neigbouring Ngara estate.

The lass pulled it off for two years before her double life was exposed by a concerned watchman who whispered to the retired soldier that he was being played, he claims.

Chacha claims he spent millions on Lilian, including funding trips to exclusive beach resorts at the Coast, and even giving her one of his cars for personal use.

Besides paying college fee, rent, food and footing entertainment bills, it is alleged the don occasionally helped his lover’s mother financially. He cites an instance when he gave Susan Mohabe, his prospective mother-in-law and a nominated MCA in Migori County, Sh500,000 (The Nairobian has seen a copy of the bank deposit slip).

During one of their romantic trips to Mombasa last year, a suspicious Chacha reportedly went through Lillian’s mobile phone. To his shock, she had apparently been exchanging intimate text messages with a sitting Nyanza MP, yet she was two months pregnant with his child.

“When I asked her about the messages, she claimed the MP was just an acquaintance who was helping her financially. But that marked the beginning of our fall-out as one discovery led to another,” recounts the don.

One night, after dropping Lilian, who was now in her final year, a security guard asked him, “Mzee, mimi naona tu ukiwacha huyo mischana hapa nje. Mbona huingiangi kwa nyumba (you just drop this girl at the gate. How come you never enter the house)?” It was a loaded message that aroused Chacha’s curiosity.

Apparently, Chacha had never set foot in the house, whose rent he paid, because he had been made to believe Lilian stayed with her young siblings. One evening, he set a trap. After dropping her, he pretended to drive home as was the norm. Instead, the old soldier parked the car and took cover in a miraa kiosk with his eyes trained on Lilian’s door. After about 30 minutes, his skimpily dressed ‘future wife’ allegedly appeared but quickly darted back into the house when she spotted him.

“After a few minutes, she came and demanded to know what I was still doing around while pestering me to go home,” he recalls.

Miffed that he was being conned, Chacha approached officers at Parklands Police Station who summoned Lilian for grilling. She confessed that she had another man with whom she spent nights at Ngara. This revelation jolted Chacha to drive home to Kuria and report the matter to the Inchama, the council of elders, to seek justice. Elders summoned all the involved parties – the two men, Lilian and her parents on August 4, 2015.

Although Maisori, the girl’s other lover, also bending his 60s, never turned up, the council of elders slapped a Sh3.7 million fine on him, being compensation to Chacha for expenses spent on Lilian. They have also summoned him to appear before them on August 25 to answer charges of stealing someone’s wife, contrary to Kuria traditions.

Inchama secretary Zacharia Nyagusuka confirmed the case and blamed nominated MCA Susan Mohabe for having overbearing influence on her daughter.

“The matter is in our court. We have given him (Maisori) one chance and if he fails to come, then the elders will decide the next course of action,” said Nyagusuka. The nominated MCA said, “I don’t want to talk about that case” and hung up when we sought her comments.

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