Singer Gloria Muliro- I moved on after divorcing money-loving husband

Almost 10 months after her divorce hit the headlines, gospel musician Gloria Muliro has spoken for the first time about the breakup, saying she has moved on.

Speaking on KTN’s Sunday programme, Tukuza, Gloria said there was no turning back.

“I am moving on with my life and the past is just that. The past,” said Gloria when asked about rumours that she and her ex husband were getting back together.

Gloria married Pastor Eric Omba Miko in 2009 in a colourful wedding, but walked out of the marriage, citing infidelity.

She told Tukuza that she was now happy, having found peace which had eluded her before.

“One of the things I appreciate and will never take for granted is peace. One time, I remember asking to understand how peace feels like. I was lost, but God found me and I have collected myself. The person you are looking at now is very different now,” said Gloria, adding that she had known her hubby was seeing a ‘side mattress’ as far back as January. Her friends reportedly had told her about her husband’s affair, but she chose to ignore them.

In an earlier interview, Gloria said that she did not want to deal with outsiders, but God decided to show her the truth. Gloria had revealed that Eric who was also her manager started being a control freak and dictated everything around her career and worse, began misappropriating funds earned from her music career.

 During that interview, she revealed that the first insight into his love for money was during the night of their honeymoon. Eric reportedly waited for her to go to the bathroom and before going through the gifts they had received at the wedding, and took the money from the envelopes and stashed it in his pockets.

This, however, did not make Gloria leave as she believed in marriage and the African culture that it is a woman’s role to keep a marriage together and so, she says, she stayed put because she thought it would work.

Gloria said that cracks began emerging during the first month after Eric began accusing “me of all manner of things and never gave me time to talk. He even wrote down a set of rules that I had to follow. In that first month, he sent me over to a friend’s place saying to teach me how to cook and keep good hygiene only to discover that I was being turned into a house girl,” said Gloria. She added that: “He went back to our house and expressed delight at how he was happy at home without me. In the first year, he packed my clothes and asked to escort me away. He had gotten violent over time and he offered no space for communication and dialogue,” the Sitolia hit maker claims.

“Someone may ask why it took me five years. I was determined to make it work. I am not saying I tried my best, no. I did my all best in fact,” said Gloria.

“People may criticise from afar but they have no idea what I was going through. Only the few people in my circle know and can tell,” she said. “It has been a challenge and a learning process. Through it all, I have learnt a lot of lessons. It wasn’t easy,” she added.