Former Ainabkoi MP William Chepkut’s widow has moved to court to stop his burial scheduled for tomorrow.
Milka Chepkut is accusing Chepkut’s relatives of locking her out of her husband’s burial arrangements.
In an application filed at the Milimani Law Courts, she wants the court to order Lee Funeral Home not to release the politician’s body to his relatives.
Milka said she and Chepkut wedded in church in 1998.
“We lived together, and had two sons, until 2010, when my husband stopped coming home, only to learn he had an affair”.
“He sired four children with two other women in the course of our marriage,” narrated Milka”.
Milka claims to have been barred from accessing some of their properties.
“The committee is meeting away from my house in Westlands. If they’re mourning in another person’s house, who will comfort my children and me?” she posed.
At the same time she claimed that her son were arrested and locked up on Friday during the Requiem Mass “for being a nuisance”.
She said is worried about the future of her two children because most of her family’s property are in the hands of the politician’s relatives.
Nicholas Chepkut, Milka’s son, called on the State to intervene and stop the intimidation meted out to them.
“The applicant is apprehensive that these are plans to disinherit her from the estate of the deceased,” Omari said.
Chepkut’s body has however been flown to Eldoret ready for burial slated for Tuesday.