The embattled woman in the marriage, 43-year-old Josephine Ndulu Munyao, entered into a woman-to-woman union with the elderly Angela Nyamai Munyao in 2005.
Fida’s chairperson Josephine Mong’are said the organisation will try all means, including enlisting the help of the Kamba Council of Elders, to solve the dispute that tests the age-old iweto Kamba tradition.
Efforts by elders of the Amuumoni Mbaa Kiimi Clan to intervene in the case after the magistrate’s judgement of October 29, 2018 have failed, and Josephine risks eviction from the place where she lives.
The Federation of Women Lawyers (Fida) Kenya has promised to intervene in the case of a woman in Machakos County who has been disinherited by a fellow woman she “married” 14 years ago.
Fida’s chairperson Josephine Mong’are said on Saturday that the organisation will try all means, including enlisting the help of the Kamba Council of Elders, to solve the dispute that tests the age-old iweto, a Kamba tradition where a woman “marries” a younger one to bear children for her.
