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‘Wives’ fight as police boss lies in Coast mortuary for four months

 Nathan Nyange and Lily Jemutai posing for photo

Two women are fighting over a police officer whose body has been lying in a morgue for four months after burial was stopped by a court order.

The body of Embu West Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) Nathan Nruzi Nyange who passed on in May 2015 is still lying in a hospital morgue in Mombasa.

The two women, Lily Jemutai Nyange and Agnes Mwero are fighting over the custody of his remains.

At the centre of the fight is the late officer’s wealth, including plots and homes in Mombasa, Kitale and Wundanyi where he was when he fell sick.

 Nyange died at Pandya Hospital, Mombasa after a short illness while on annual leave. In an interview with The Nairobian, Jemutai claims Mwero, a Changamwe Police corporal, hurriedly organised the deceased’s burial in cahoots with her late hubby’s colleagues.

Jemutia said she met Nyange in Eldoret in the late 1980s and her June 29, 1995 marriage certificate was issued at the Senior Magistrate’s Court in Kitale. The mother of five says at no time did the deceased mention having another wife.

“We were planning for a church wedding but had not settled on the right date because of commitments and his tight schedule,” said Jemutai.

 Jemutai claims she has written to Inspector General of Police, Joseph Boinett, and National Police Service Commission expressing her concerns about her late husband’s colleagues meddling in a family matter. 

Contacted by The Nairobian, Mwero said she neither knew nor has ever heard  about Jemutia.

“I don’t know anyone by that name,” said Mwero who also has a  letter signed by a chief in Wundanyi, claiming she married Nyange on May 9, 2013 at a customary wedding attended by her father and relatives. 

Mwero had been married but reportedly dissolved the marriage at a Mombasa court on February 26, 2012 and later married Nyange. 

“I lived with Nyange for more than ten years and we have nine kids, if she (Jemutai) claims to be the legally married woman let her table any document to prove her case or move to court.”

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