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Court: Mithika Linturi was in a Catholic union, could not marry Kitany

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Agriculture CS nominee Mithika Linturi and Aldai MP Marryanne Kitany. [File, Standard]

Failure by Agriculture Cabinet Secretary nominee Mithika Linturi to divorce his church-wedded wife before moving in with Aldai MP Maryanne Kitany made him an ineligible candidate for marriage, the court has ruled.

In what Milimani Chief Magistrate Heston Nyaga said could have been out of sheer forgetfulness or shrewdness on Mithika's part, his failure to divorce his wife made it illegal to wed Kitany.

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