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Osmond Sambu Okero recalls the first night he met the woman he would later call his wife and mother of his children. “I used to work as an accountant in Siaya Branch. That’s where I met Corazon’s mother, Keziah Atieno.
Her brother was my workmate and when I visited his house in 1983, I saw a very beautiful girl. Keziah had just finished high school and I instantly fell in love with her. Corazon has taken after her mother’s beauty.”
At the time, Keziah was dating someone else. “One night, her boyfriend turned violent and she came to my house for help but never left. That is how we ended up together. Later in 1986, her brothers came for her because they never supported our marriage due tribal differences,” said Sambu, recalling how his alleged wife’s family took her for a tailoring course in Nairobi but they never stopped communicating.
“As soon as training was over, she went back to her family and asked them to accept me as her love,” She disclosed. “Immediately she came back, I arranged for a traditional marriage. I took two cows, two goats, and Sh10,000 as dowry to Alego.
Thereafter, we started living together and I was transferred to Kisumu in 1990. We got our first born, Corazon, in 1991. I named her after a Filipino revolutionary, Corazon Aquino,” says Sambu.
