Judge makes about-turn after ruling on couple’s bitter divorce

Lincoln Karathi 81 at his home in Tetu, Nyeri County on May 16,2018. Karathi filed for divorce from his wife of 44 years, in 2005 and had to split all his property including their latrine with her 50:50 [Photo: Kibata Kihu/Standard]

A Nyeri octogenarian forced to share a pit latrine on a 50:50 basis with his estranged wife has lauded the High Court decision which disapproved the principle last week.

And in an ironic twist, the same judge who handed the principle a blow last week, Justice John Mativo, ratified it when handling some matters arising from the octogenarian’s divorce.