The newspapers Tuesday, October 20, reported on various topics, with a court in Kisumu awarding a woman after husband took home another lover.
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1. Taifa Leo
A Kenyan woman has been awarded KSh 500,000 in damages after a High Court found that her husband violated her constitutional rights by moving his lover into their shared marital home in Kisumu County.
High Court Judge Alfred Mebeya delivered the ruling against the husband, identified by the initials GOB, finding that his decision to introduce his lover, FC, into the family home in Kombewa, Kisumu County, without consulting his wife amounted to a breach of her fundamental rights.
Judge Mebeya ordered GOB and FC to jointly pay the damages to the wife, identified as BAC, and directed FC to vacate the marital home within 14 days of the ruling.
The names of those involved were abbreviated to protect the identities of their three children, all under the age of 18, who live with their mother.
BAC told the court that she and GOB had been married in a Christian ceremony on March 16, 1996, and that the couple had been living in the Kombewa home since 2017.
She told the court that on May 13, 2026, her husband arrived home with FC, having neither consulted her nor sought her agreement, and subsequently allowed FC to remain in the household.
BAC argued before the court that her husband's conduct had infringed upon her rights to dignity, privacy, health and peaceful enjoyment of the home she shared with her family.
She further submitted that the presence of the other woman in the household had negatively affected the wellbeing of the couple's three children.
Judge Mebeya agreed with BAC's position, finding that GOB's actions constituted a violation of his wife's human dignity, and that the circumstances warranted both financial redress and the removal of FC from the home.
2. Daily Nation
The newspaper covered the court ruling on the Shakahola Forest massacre, one of Kenya's worst cult-related tragedies that has its roots in a pattern of unchecked religious extremism spanning more than a decade.
When investigators began exhuming hundreds of bodies from shallow graves in Kilifi County on March 20, 2023, the scale of deaths pointed to a prolonged and systematic campaign led by preacher Paul Mackenzie.
Mackenzie founded Good News International (GNI) church in 2003, which was formally registered in 2010.
Two years later, the organisation registered Good News Media (K) Limited, operating a television station called Times TV in Malindi.
Over the years, his ministry attracted growing concern over extremist doctrine, child welfare violations, and rejection of modern medicine.
Followers were referred to as "the Chosen" and were instructed to detach themselves from worldly possessions, while the government was portrayed as an enemy.
Authorities took note as early as 2017, when Mackenzie faced charges related to promoting extremist ideology and running an unregistered educational institution.
He was released in one case after reaching an agreement with prosecutors and in another was freed on bail, ultimately acquitted in 2021.
That same year, 43 children aged between one and 13 were rescued from GNI premises in Mayungu.
Reports indicated they had been detained, denied schooling, and subjected to religious indoctrination.
A court ordered psychological counselling and medical treatment before they were returned to their families.
In 2019, a citizens' committee at Kilifi County Court examined complaints that children were being radicalised through Mackenzie's church and television broadcasts.
The Communications Authority subsequently revoked Times TV's broadcasting licence. Mackenzie was also prosecuted for distributing unclassified films and operating a studio without authorisation.
On November 10, 2023, he was convicted on those charges and sentenced to 18 months in prison, though he was acquitted on a count of incitement.
Some followers had begun relocating to Shakahola from 2019, with numbers increasing significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prosecutors allege they were instructed to fast unto death in order to reach heaven, with children expected to die first, followed by women and then men.
Mackenzie and 30 co-accused were subsequently charged with the murders of 191 children. All denied the charges.
The High Court in Malindi ruled in 2024 that the charges should be reduced to a maximum of 12 counts, but the Court of Appeal reversed that decision on April 11, 2025, reinstating all 191 charges.
The trial commenced at the Mombasa High Court last August following prolonged legal disputes, with a ruling delivered on Monday.
Following the discovery of the massacre, the Judicial Service Commission announced it would review how Mackenzie's earlier cases had been handled, to determine whether failures in the justice system had contributed to the outcome.
The Shakahola tragedy has since prompted serious questions about whether timely intervention by authorities could have prevented the deaths.
Source: TUKO.co.ke