A brother of former Moyale MP Dr Guracha Galgalo yesterday told a Nairobi court that he was against a love affair between the legislator and a woman who is laying claim to his estate.
Mr Wario Malla Galgalo, who replaced his brother as the Moyale MP, told the High Court that he had opposed the relationship between Dr Galgalo and Ms Rehema Dida Jaldesa, which eventually blossomed into a marriage in 2003.
The love affair between Dr Guracha and Ms Jaldesa, he added came to his knowledge in 2000.
At some point, he said, the issue of Ms Jaldesa brought tension in the family and his brother then accused him as one of the people fighting his relationship with Ms Jaldesa.
“I was not happy with Dr Guracha’s relationship to Jaldesa ,” said the young Galgalo while testifying during the hearing of a dispute over the administration of Dr Galgalo’s estate.
Ms Jaldesa and Dr Galgalo’s first wife, Ms Bernadette Okotu Shama, are fighting over who should be given the authority by the court to manage the estate of the former MP.
Led in his evidence by lawyer Cecil Miller, he told the trial Judge Mr Justice David Onyancha that in 2003, he sympathised with Ms Shama because she was facing many problems.
One of them was that Dr Galgalo had decided to construct a house for Ms Jaldesa at Karen, where she is currently living, while Ms Okotu was living at another house in Hurlingham.
The legislator said he was opposed to the construction of the house because he felt Dr Galgalo should have built the house for his first wife .
Dr Galgalo perished in a plane crash alongside six other MPs on April 10, 2006. The hearing continues.
