There was a family feud early last year in Kenya involving
a 56-year-old woman who sued her step grandchild aged
24 for snatching her husband.
According to Standard Digital, the family battle has been
ongoing for three years before spilling out.
Grace Mwende accused Florence Nduku of insulting her
through a chain of text messages after allegedly starting
an intimate relationship with her husband, Daniel
Mwongela, 61.
The 24-year-old is reportedly facing six counts of misusing
a communication gadget. Some of the text messages
received between July 12, 2013 and early 2015 referred to
Mwende as an “old hag” who “could not satisfy the old
man” and that she lost her “sweetness a long time ago,”
thus it was her (Nduku’s) turn to enjoy the old man’s
“honey.”
Nduku also allegedly insulted Mwende that she is a witch
and husband snatcher who once sold herself in five-star
hotels.
She initially denied the charges and was set free on a
N194,024 (Sh100,000) cash bail or bond of N582,072
(Sh300,000) with a surety of a similar amount.
However, the table turned leading Nduku to change her
mind in court, confessing that Mwongela proposed to her
and she was unhappy to share him with her granny
Mwende.
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“I acted out of anger and I’m very sorry. We were sharing
a man with Mwende. He (Mwongela) had promised to
marry me,” Nduku stated in her mitigation.
Their secret relationship was blown open in 2011 just
three months after Mwende, a boutique owner and
Mwongela wedded in a church ceremony in Machakos.
Initially, Mwongela who worked in Malindi, used to visit
Mwende in Nairobi on a monthly basis, but unknown to
her, Nduku – who was one of her bridesmaids during their
wedding – was also eyeing the old man.
Grace Mwende and Mwongela on their wedding day
Sources disclose that Nduku worked at her grandmother’s
boutique where her fight with a colleague over a man
made her quit her job “to concentrate on her relationship
with Mwongela” in what later escalated to insulting text
messages directed at her grandmother.
Nduku told the court that she has been in an intimate
relationship with Mwongela and it would be tiresome to
appear in court daily.
Besides, she claimed to be in the process of preparing to
leave the country for unknown reasons and hence her
change of plea and stunning confession.
Nduku was fined Sh10,000 in five counts or serve three
months in jail for all the counts. She was however
discharged on one count, a ruling that Mwende claims to
be ‘fishy,’ considering the initial bond terms.
“At the moment, I don’t have the heart to forgive Nduku
for what she did to me. It hurts a lot and I don’t think I
will even forgive her,” Mwende told The Nairobian.
According to Mwende, the text messages were gross and
ruined her relationship with other family members and
“some elders have since approached me that I ought to
forgive her but it is hard because I raised her like my
own.”
She added that: “The bitter part is how her father
defended her and told me he is ready to receive dowry
from Mwongela. For now, I will just take a break before
embarking on the next course of action and probably find
another option to seek justice.”