82 year old veteran Kenyan politician cum farmer, Jackson Kibor has filed for divorce against his second wife with whom they have married for 51 years, and blessed with six children.
Jackson Kibor, a once powerful, Kanu bigwig and close confidant of former president Moi, married to Josephine Jepkoech as second wife at an Eldoret court in 1965.
Mr Kibor, respected for his political and financial muscle among the Kalenjin community, filed for divorce and accused his wife of desertion, cruelty and interfering with his ownership of an 800-acre piece of land in Kipkabus, Uasin Gishu County.
In the lawsuit, the man told senior principal magistrate Charles Obulutsa that he has not spent time with Josephine for more than 30 years and, as such, he wants the court to nullify the marriage.
In her defence, Josephine dismissed the allegations, saying that she has committed to their marriage, having invested time and resources in it.
She further told the court that her husband left their matrimonial home in Kipkabus area in 1975 voluntarily and it was his preference to live with his third wife, Naomi Kibor, in Ziwa area.
In her defence on the dispute centers on a row over their co-owned 800-acre piece of land at their matrimonial home in Kipkabus, she said that Mr. Kibor filed the case after she stopped him from selling 200 acres of their land.
Mr Kibor is not a stranger to court disputes with family members.
In May, he moved to court to bar the transfer of land to his sons, despite having subdivided it to them as a sign of inheritance.
The divorce case has been scheduled to he heard on November 9. [myad]
