Disowned for marrying from forbidden clan

Mzee Nyaga M’Rwingo. [PHOTO: FILEX MURIITHI

When his daughter got married six years ago, he utterly disowned her in front of clan elders. He told his biological spawn never to refer to him as her father nor name any of her children after him. He, until now, he is still angry with her.

“As you can see, my daughter married a man from my clan. Our clan, Gitiri, does not allow its members to intermarry. Ever since she married that man, I have considered them (the couple) and their family as outcasts. They are not mine in anyway,” Nyaga M’Rwingo, 73, says bitterly.