A Nairobi gospel artiste known for the hit Pambazuka na Yesu wants to
divorce her bishop husband. PastorJoan Wairimu Githuku and her husband
have both filed cases in court accusing each other of adultery.
Pastor Wairimu has initiated the case at a Nairobi court where she seeks orders of separation.
But her husband, Bishop William Musyoki Mwangangi, has filed a cross
petition asking the court to dissolve the marriage. The couple got
married in 1996 in church.
But the two have recently been engaged in counter accusations over the divorce case, which is yet to start.
The accusations range from cruelty, adultery, watching of pornographic
movies, denial of conjugal rights and issuance of death threats.
Pastor Wairimu is a gospel musician known mostly for her song
Pambazuka na Yesu, which is popular on YouTube and is often downloaded
as a ringtone by many Nairobians. She also runs Pambazuka Production and
Queens Ministry.
Bishop Mwangangi, who is the head of Jesus Manifestation Church in
Githurai 45, accuses her wife of denying him conjugal rights since 2009.
But Pastor Wairimu claims her has had many adulterous affairs with
known and unknown women causing her to suffer great embarrassment.
She has listed five women including house girls she claims her husband has slept with since 1996.
She claims the bishop has sired a child out of wedlock as a result of
his adulterous actions, but the bishop denies the accusation.
Bishop Mwangangi on the other hand claims that his wife, who
recently moved out of their matrimonial home in Muthiaga North, has
denied him his conjugal rights for the last five years.
He further
denies that he has been exposing their three children to sexually
explicittext messages and nude pictures of his lovers. The claims, he
says, are imaginary and meant to malign him as a man of God.
“To the
contrary, it is the petitioner (Pastor Wairimu) who has been watching
pornographic movies in the house at night in the name of copying sexual
styles whereas she has denied the respondent his conjugal rights for the
last five years,” the Bishop alleges.
He says his wife has been cruel to him to the extent that she slept
out of the matrimonial home without informing him and the children of
her whereabouts. He has also linked her to various adulterous actions
with some men since 2006. He claims the wife on several occasions made
sexual advances to their shamba boys and a driver. Those who turned down
the advances were sacked, the bishop says.
One of the drivers has
filed an affidavit as a witness in support of the bishop’s case claiming
that Pastor Wairimu made advances to him in April when her husband was
away in South Africa for a mission.
She is also accused of bringing her lover to the matrimonial home for a sleepover in 2006.
Pastor Wairimu has also allegedly issued death threats to her husband
telling him that he would kill him through food poisoning.
“Subsequently on July 29, 2013, the petitioner sent the respondent the
message, ‘Baba X (name of their child omitted by The Nairobian), I will
make sure that you will be a dead man’,” claims the bishop.
But the
bishop is also accused by the wife of issuing many death threats to her
and making her live in fear and causing her mental anguish.
Pastor Wairimu claims the husband on July 5 threatened her and she
made a report to the police. The bishop was summoned by police and made
to record a statement. He denies making death threats to the wife.
She further claims that the bishop has been verbally abusive and has physically assaulted her throughout their marriage.
The bishop, she alleges, has been rude arrogant and very demeaning
to her in front of the children, housegirls and their relatives.
Pastor Wairimu accuses the husband of failing to take up his
parental responsibility over the children and instead living a splashy
and wasteful lifestyle, spending hundreds of thousands on expensive
shoes, perfumes, and watches while the children’s upkeep has not been
catered for.
The man has also allegedly not shown her love, even when she was involved in a tragic road accident making her feel unloved.
Bishop Mwangangi in turn accuses the wife of abdicating her role as
a wife “five years ago by refusing to cook, do the laundry, clean the
bedroom and all other role that pertains to a wife exposing the
respondent to a lot of stress and turmoil”.
He claims her wife has on many occasions incited the congregation
to move from church and go worship elsewhere alleging that the husband
is not a man of God.
The parties are waiting for allocation of hearing dates by the registrar.-
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