Granny loses husband to teen girl

By Paul Kariuki

A 68-year-old mother of seven grown up children was beaten and kicked out of her home at Wanyororo ‘A’, Nakuru County.

 According to sources, she left to make room for a young form four school drop out after her husband allegedly grew ‘tired’ of her.

The woman was sent packing to her 87-year-old mother’s house in Tabuga village in Nakuru County after the randy septuagenarian refused her grounds of ‘appeal’.

 Many are yet to come to terms with this incident, wondering why a man would end an old marriage for a woman much younger than his 20-year-old last-born son.

 The granny did not give up easily on her marriage, though. She attempted all avenues to salvage it, including appealing to village elders to talk ‘sense’ into her husband whose head, she said, must have gone ‘woozy’. A co-wife was only coming into her home over her dead body, she swore.

 But as a pointer to the fact that he had found the balm of life to soothe his weary limbs, the old man sent the elders packing. In any case, there’s a shortage of ‘grey heads’ around and the elders on a peace mission were a sprinkling of ‘children’ in their 50s as the sage scoffed behind their departing backs. Even the church’s counsel fell on deaf ears.

 This saw the woman summon her children to her mother’s place for an impromptu family meeting.

 She believed that if she went accompanied by a retinue of her children and grandchildren, it would shame her man who had gone bonkers in seeing sense for the first time since that ‘thing’ — as she derisively called her co-wife — had come to the scene.

Impertinence

The ruse failed disastrously because the old man made it clear that he would not be dictated to in his own home and that he was ready to disown his flesh and blood if they persisted with their impertinence.

 Tempers, however, remain hot with the estranged wife and her children claiming the late entrant is a gold digger out to get what the family toiled for years to build.

The couple was relatively wealthy with one of their daughters running her firm in Nairobi. One of their son works overseas and it is believed that the money he remitted back home had accorded the geezer an easy lifestyle that enabled him to acquire a petite flame to sweeten his sunset years.