This archive report was first published on 21 August 2019.
Former Chief of Staff in the Deputy President's office, Marianne Kitany, has laid bare the millions she spent in her divorce court battle with Meru Senator Mithika Linturi. The court battle has revealed a complex web of financial transactions and personal relationships between the two.
Kitany, who continued her testimony on Wednesday, revealed that she used to pay house rent for Linturi when he was broke and had rent arrears. She even gave him Sh200,000 for rent at some point, as she revealed in court.
According to Kitany, Linturi's rent problems were the reason she accommodated him in her house. She also told the court that Linturi's children moved to her house in August 2014, and the two became lovers during a stay in Naivasha in 2014.
Kitany and Linturi got married during the Easter weekend of 2016. She also revealed that she took Linturi to Naivasha to block him from tabling a motion to impeach then Devolution CS Anne Waiguru in Parliament.
Kitany said she paid Sh11 million for a family trip to Australia in December, where they visited five different cities and later went to Dubai for two days before returning to Kenya. She also revealed that they had another trip to Mauritius in December 2015, costing her Sh800,000.
Linturi's help came in 2015 when he paid school fees for one of Kitany's kids and his own children. Kitany also revealed that Linturi stood by her at the time she was being investigated for corruption.
Linturi convinced her in June 2015 not to go back into government but join him in his business, which was not doing well. The family got a house in Runda to accommodate all the six kids, costing them Sh110 million, with Kitany paying Sh30 million. She also paid Sh26 Million from her pocket to renovate Linturi's Meru home, thinking she was building her home.
