A fight over a multi-billion estate pitting three widows has taken a dramatic turn after accusations surfaced that one of the women doctored her children's birth certificates to benefit from the tycoon's estate.
The Daily Nation reported on Tuesday, September 24, that the three widows; Phelesia Olweny, Norah Atieno, and Ann Wanjiru have been squaring it out for close to three years now, following the death of reclusive billionaire Eliakim Washington Olweny of Nakuru County in December 2016.
The second wife Atieno, however, is in a quandary, having been slapped with accusations of forging her children's birth registration certificates for them to partake in his wealth.
The case was filed by Timothy Olweny and Edwin Olweny, sons of the first wife Phelesia Olweny, who are also seeking to keep out the other widows and their children from inheriting the contested property, terming them strangers.
Norah, in her defense, alleged that she had formalized her marriage with Washington in 1992 after dissolving her first marriage and had her first child with Olweny in 1999.
Glaring issues, however, are reported to have come to attention in 2018, when Timothy Olweny came across birth certificates of Norah's four children, bearing the name of Washington as the father of the children.
Norah is reported to have defended herself, claiming that they had reached an agreement with the tycoon to change the names on the birth certificates, a matter that Timothy disputed.
“The late registration documents had no signatures, she had not met with my father when the genuine certificates were being issued. How then would he have consented? For a father to adopt a child there are adoption proceedings,” he protested.
He was also reported to have challenged the paternity of Kelvin Odhiambo, claiming that the certificate indicated that he was born in Viwandani, Nakuru County, while investigations traced the birth back to Huruma Maternity and Nursing Home in Nairobi.
“Various documents show that the child has three birth dates. One for Nakuru shows that he was born on November 9, 1999, for Gomongo it is September 12, 1999, while a letter from his school indicates his birth date as November 11, 1999. A woman cannot give birth thrice in three months,” stated Olweny.
The Daily Nation reported that the charge sheets intimate that Norah Atieno Wasonga, on diverse dates between September 1998 and November 2012, wilfully procured the second registration of birth for her four children pretending to be the first registration.
She is also accused of knowingly providing false information to the county civil registrar’s office in Nakuru with the intent of procuring a second birth certificate of her children.
The case was adjourned on September 13, 2019.
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