A Kenya woman is before the court for falsely claiming that she is married to a 70-year old Asian man.
Appearing before Milimani Law Court, the Asian man claimed that the woman forged a marriage certificate just to frame their marriage.
The businessman further claimed that the woman also forged a birth certificate of an inexistent child they purportedly had together. According to him, the woman plotted all these moves to rob him of Ksh120 million.
The businessman, Alihadi Dafilla, told the court that he received a phone call from Kenya Commercial Bank summoning him to the bank’s branch in Nairobi.
Following the call, Alihadi went and met the bank manager and two other officials from the Central Bank of Kenya asking him if he had died as claimed by the woman.
“They asked me whether I was married and with a child. I stated that I was once married to Fatuma Abdulmoniem, a lady from Yemen, whom I divorced in 1983. She went back to her country and we had no child together” he told the court as reported by K24.
He further told the court that the woman had informed the bank he was dead and she was his widow. He said that he disowned a marriage certificate linking him to the suspect, Fatuma Mercy Njoki.
“I was shown my death certificate and a birth certificate of Amina Zainab, my alleged daughter, and a land sale agreement. The documents are fake and were made to steal money from my bank account” the businessman said.
Following the case, the alleged wife, Fatuma, and her accomplice Bakari Abdalla Vuwa were charged with conspiracy to defraud the businessman.
The two are also facing four counts of forging a death certificate, a birth certificate, and the alleged child of the businessman.
