IEBC Chief Executive Officer's Wife Wants to Leave

Nairobi, Kenya: The wife of Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)? boss has moved to court seeking ... divorce from her husband.

IEBC Chief Executive Officer James Oswago’s spouse, Benter Akinyi Opande, has challenged a decision by a magistrate’s court that had thrown out a divorce case she had filed on grounds that a lower court did not have jurisdiction to hear the suit.

The petitioner, a secretary with the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers, had moved to the magistrate’s court seeking to divorce from Oswago on grounds of desertion and
neglect. She is also seeking Sh203,000 per month as maintenance.