A pastor in Nairobi, Kenya has ended his 87 days old marriage over his wife’s behavior towards spiritual procedures.
The pastor, Apostle Kenneth Kiarie of God’s Covenant Holiness Church in Mihang’o, Kayole who got married in April to a 23-year-old lady, Marion Wagitu, said his marriage to the lady was “because being a pastor, I needed a wife officially married in church.”
The pastor further added that he borrowed money to fund the wedding ceremony which has put him in debt.
The pastor who threw out the pregnant wife to marry another woman was reported to have crashed the marriage a month after they got together.
Pregnant Marion who has since been thrown out and has thus returned to her village at Murang’a said: “He used to tell me that if I left, I would not get a husband, and that he had scores of beautiful girls hanging around him.”
Marion who said she married Apostle Kiarie because he is a man of God noted that her husband accused her of declining the congregation with her attitude and odd behaviours.
She said: “He blames me over a Sh70,000 debt he incurred to fund the wedding. He claimed I threw hot tea and stove at him and attempted to beat him in front of his parents.”
Pastor Kiarie however denied the allegations saying: “Actually, that was the third time I chased her and it has now been successful. She wanted to control me but that is not African. I said we rather separate than have one of us dead.”
Pastor Kiarie continued: “She even said I never bought her underwear. I don’t consider her sober and I want her sanity checked. I believe nobody can stay with her unless she changes.”
Pastor Kiarie also expressed his fears as to catering for the unborn baby as the expenses incurred during the wedding had thrown him into debt.
“I did not want to send her away. I have never assaulted her, but being a pastor, everybody thinks I am the problem. A wife means a lot to a man, but Marion is not worth living with. She will harm me.”