A Nairobi gospel artiste known for the hit Pambazuka na Yesu wants to divorce her bishop husband.
Pastor Joan 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 explicit text 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.
