Court Allows Former Machakos Senator Muthama to Evict Former Wife from His Home

The court has paved way for former Machakos Senator Johnstone Muthama to evict his divorced wife from his Mua home.

In a ruling, the High Court has declared that Agnes Kavindu Musyoka is no longer Muthama's wife since they legally divorced in 1983.

The ruling gives the politician the authority to evict Kavindu from his property. She has been living in Muthama's home in Mua, Machakos County for several years.

“The picture that emerged was not that of a spouse but of a person accommodated initially as a mother of the respondent’s (Muthama) daughter," a ruling by Justice William Musyoka reads.

Documents filed in court show that the two got married in 1975 under the Kamba customary law but their marriage was dissolved by the court in 1983.

Muthama and Kavindu had another love affair in 1996 from which they got a child together.

In 2014, Ms. Musyoka filed a case in court in a bid to block Muthama from evicting her from the ‘matrimonial home’, saying that she had a right to occupy it.

She used their reunion in 1996 to argue that they had remarried and has the right to live in the residence.

On his side, Muthama maintained that they separated and accused Kavindu of using his name without authorization.