Environment Cabinet Secretary, Soipan Tuya, has dragged her husband, Stephen Saibulu, to court claiming that he is physically and emotionally abusive.
Tuyais asking the court to grant her custody over their two children following her husband actions.
In the documents submitted to court, the Cabinet Secretary CS is not only seeking custody of her two children but Sh425,000 for their upkeep.
The complaint
In her affidavit through Lawyer Clarence Ondabu, CS claims that from the relationship, she got pregnant twice and was blessed with two children.
She said that following the disconnection, Kudate consequently moved out of her home in Motorok village in Narosura, Narok South and went back to live with his wife in Narok.
And claims that her estranged husband treats their children and her domestic workers with cruelty.
She added that they have been psychologically, emotionally and verbally abused by the estranged spouse and that’s why she wants full custody of the minors.
“l also seek an order compelling the Defendant (Kudate) to pay Ksh100, 000 being fifty (50%) per cent of Ksh200,000 being the minor children’s monthly entertainment needs and further order compelling Ksh100, 000 being 50 per cent Ksh200,000 being the expense of maintaining the minor children and upkeep for the minor children,” she states in court papers.
I provide everything- Tuya
Tuya revealed that she has at all material times, faithfully paid 100 per cent of school fees and school-related expenses towards the children at their previous and current schools as well as full monthly maintenance and upkeep of all the children.
“During and after subsistence of the cohabitation, CS Tuya, a mother to the two children has been the sole breadwinner, providing all of the minor’s basic needs including, food, shelter, education, clothing and medical expenses as well as actual custody, care and control over the children,” Lawyer Ondabu states.
The CS says that Kudate has instead adopted a very casual approach to the financial needs of the children contributing nothing to school fees, clothing and other basic need
“It is as a result of the defendant’s failure to pay any share of school fees, school-related expenses, maintenance, upkeep and; incessant abuse, threats, intimidation and infidelity that the plaintiff seeks this Honourable Court’s intervention on matters custody, care and control of the children,” CS Tuya says.
By BNN