THE inheritance case over a multi-million estate of the late Moyale member of Parliament Dr Wilson Guracha Boru Galgalo opened yesterday.
The court heard that a wife to a former Army Major eloped with him (Galgalo) in 2000. Moyale MP Wario Galgalo,a brother to the deceased, told Justice David Onyancha that Rehema Jaldesa eloped with his late brother in 2000 after she separated with her former husband Major (Rtd) Dima Jillo.
Galgalo said the incident was played up by his brother’s political opponents during the 2002 election campaigns.Led in his evidence by lawyer Cecil Miller,Galgalo said everybody knew that Rehema was a wife of the deceased.
Galgalo told Justice Onyancha that it was not a secret that his late brother had two wives, Bcmadetta Okotu Sharma and Rehema Jaldesa.
The MP said the love triangle between his late brother and Rehema begun
when she moved out of her first marriage with Major Jillo in 1998.
The judge heard Dr Galgalo officially married Rehema in 2003 under Muslim rites. The MP said the eloping of his brother with Rehema had become a very serious issue but elders in Moyale intervened and said the marriage was a personal issue and should not be dragged into the political Arena.
The MP was testifying in a case tiled by Rehema challenging the granting of letters of administration over the estate of her late husband to Bernadetta.
In the letters of administration, Bernadetta has identified Rehema as a mistress. Bernadetta who was married under Christian rites has also recognized the child Rehema sired with her late husband as a beneficiary.
Rehema is seeking to have the letters of administration
given to Bernadetta revoked, saying the deceased was Muslim and a Christian cannot inherit the property of a Muslim.
Bernadetta who is being defended by Alfred Nyandieka says her late husband was Christian and could not contract another marriage while the other one subsists.
