Two Kenyans Sign Pact to Share Wife

Two men have stunned the public after they unanimously agreed to have a relationship with one widowed woman in Kisimani area on the out- skirts of Mombasa Island. The two, Sylvester Mwendwa and his “co- husband” Elijah Kimani signed an agreement detailing their dedicated love for Joyce Wamboi who is a widowed mother of five year old twin girls.
They allege that the agreement was meant to settle the difference between the two, who had differed bitterly after they discovered they have been in love with the same woman for three years. In the signed agreement dated August 21 which is written in Kiswahili, Wamboi’s “husbands” vowed to respect each other and never to clash over their only wife.

“Mimi Sylvester Mwendwa na Bw Elija Kimani, tume- kubaliana yakuwa kuanzia leo hatutawahi kubishana wala kuoneana wivu kwa ajili tayari tumejuana na mke ambaye anaitwa Joyce Wamboi ambaye amesema hayuko tayari kupoteza penzi letu (I Sylvester Mwendwa and Elija Kimani are in agreement that from today we shall never quarrel or feel jealousy because we are all familiar with our wife Wamboi who has said that she is not ready to lose our love),” the letter read in part.

The letter indicates the woman has agreed to live together with the two and they have since planned a duty roster to be followed by each of the husbands. In an interview with The People at his home in Kisimani, Mwendwa said she first met Wamboi in 2010 and after few months’ acquaintance, they decided to live together in spite of the fact that the woman had two children. He said his love for the woman together with her twin girls is unswerving adding that he is not ready to marry another woman apart from her one and only love, Wamboi.

"The laws we have do not talk about it but for such a union to be recognised in Kenya, it has to be either under the statutory law or as customary marriage. The question we should ask now is whether these people come from communities that have been practising polyandry," she is quoted as saying.

Polygamous marriages often take place in Kenya, but wife-sharing is unheard of.

August 27, 2013