Details of Jubilee MP and Husband's Bitter Divorce

Gilgil MP Martha Wangari and Peter Karanja are engaged in a battle for the control of a posh house in Gilgil as divorce proceedings drag on.

In a suit filed in February 2018, Wangari asked the court to bar Karanja from the home, claiming that she bought the land and proceeded to develop it herself. 

Wangari also protested that Karanja would often cause her embarrassment and inconvenience citing the fact that she often hosted government officials at the residence. 

Gilgil MP Martha Wangari and Peter Karanja are engaged in a bitter divorce

"Subsequently, the defendant should be evicted, removed and barred from interfering or trespassing the suit residence," her petition stated. 

"The defendant has exhibited violence and hostility and has kept me from accessing my property and home, due to his act of trespass.

"My daily routine use of my home, dignity, property rights and privacy have been interfered with by acts of illegal occupation by the defendant," she complained. 

In his defence, the estranged Karanja claimed that his wife decision to kick him out was being fuelled by her status in the government. 

He also argued that the house was acquired when they were married under customary law and was their matrimonial home. 

"She fails to disclose she is in a customary marriage with the defendant from 2008 which marriage subsists.

"She also does not disclose the purchase of the plot was a marriage venture between the parties herein who have jointly and severally developed the same," the estranged husband responded in court papers. 

The house at the centre of the suit between Gilgil MP Martha Wangari and Peter Karanja.
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