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Why some men in the Rift Valley are ‘hiring’ wives

Wives for hire have invaded Narok County and are being used to transact multi-million illegal land deals that have left many families landless in the past few months.

Investigations by The County Weekly have unearthed an intricate land transaction scandal in which cunning Maasai men hire women to act as their wives while secretly selling off family land.

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