Fidelis Okochi had stayed with Jane Rosa Akinyi (left) for the last 8 years Photo: Chrispen Sechere
A man has left his community in shock after he married mother and daughter in Kenya.
According to The Nairobian,
Fidelis Okochi a farmer and herbalist in Edaho village of Busia
confessed that he does not know whom he loves more; Jane Rosa Akinyi,
64, or her daughter, Linet Awino aged 22.
He maintains that were it not for cultural interference, “I would have paid dowry for the mother and her daughter and moved on with life.”
Okochi, who is 20 years Akinyi’s junior, claims he does not also know how to get out of the marriage trap.
Details of how the love triangle started has it that Okochi had met
and fell in love with Linet in Nairobi in 2007, but would later
relocate to the village in 2008 leaving behind Linet.
While in the village, he fell in love with Jane who is Linet’s mum
without knowing she was the mother of her former lover. However, when
Linet came from the city recently, she was surprised to find that her
former lover was married to her mother.
“I married Linet’s widowed mother Akinyi and lived with her for
over eight years after I left the city. Linet came the other day from
the city, and we only lived together for six months, until she left a
few weeks ago after my area chief and elders advised against our union.
"But were it that Akinyi was not her real mother, I would have
deposited something to the first woman’s home, and then pay full dowry
to the second woman’s home,” a tolerant Okochi offered, explaining that,
“the first woman is past menopause but the second can give birth.”
Okochi is however a lonely man after Akinyi walked out of the
marriage after learning that her husband was secretly married to her
daughter, Linet. It is alleged that Akinyi left Okochi’s homestead
fuming and not before placing a curse on her daughter for stealing her
love.
This rare act of man sleeping with mother and daughter in sleepy
Edaho Village made villagers protest threatening to beat up Okochi if he
persists in his ‘foolishness.’
“His act is the reason why it is no longer raining favourably in entire Funyula constituency,” said George Ochieng a villager.
Jane has disputed Okochi’s claim that he only met her daughter in Nairobi in 2007 saying: “That man is a liar. He used to be very close to my daughter even before, to the point that everyone questioned their union.”
In anger, Akinyi packed and left for OlKajiado in Rongai area where
she works as a house help but not without cursing and swearing that
Linet would never bear Okochi a child. Linet panicked, but vowed to stay
with the man and live the curse.
Explaining further what happened after he tried to settle the
matter, Linet’s uncle, John Wandera, says that he summoned his niece and
questioned her on the village rumours that she was sleeping with her
step-father.
“I sat Linet down and tasked her to explain the rumours. She
admitted that she was living with her mother’s husband. I walked away,” said Wandera who maintains that the three must be cleansed traditionally.
Wandera however disputes a cleansing order forwarded by Okochi, a
herbalist, saying that Okochi is in the mix and cannot pretend to
prescribe any cure on the subject. “Mganga hajigangui!”
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