20 couples tie the knot at launch of open-air civil weddings

Maurice Ouma with his wife Janet Achieng during the solemnisation of their civil marriage at Nairobi Primary School on Wednesday, September 16, 2020. The Office of the Attorney General moved the solemnisation of marriages to the facility as a precaution to minimise the risk of contacting Covid-19 and encourage social distancing. [David Njaaga, Standard]

After a blissful common-law marriage that has flourished for nearly three decades and given her five children, there is nothing that 54-year-old Janet Achieng Oiro would change.