On Thursday, a Nairobi court stopped the planned disposal of departed Kibra MP Ken Okoth's body, following a petition by a woman purporting to be her unacknowledged widow.
This was in line with a request by Anne Thumbi, a nominated Nairobi Member of County Assembly (MCA), who also claims to have have brought forth a son with the late Okoth.
Before her nomination to the house after the 2017 polls, Thumbi who hails from Tetu in Nyeri County, was a nurse at the Aga Khan Hospital.
She is a vocal and active member of the house, and recently tabled a motion seeking to abolish hospitals from charging parking fees from patients visiting health facilities.
In the assembly, she is a member of; the Public Health Services; Energy Information, Communications and Technology; Culture and Community Services and the Delegated County Legislation committees.
“It is unfair for a patient or the family of the patient to incur extra parking charges yet they have medical bills to cater for. Parking should be free in all hospitals,” she said.
She is also pushing to have all the parking fees accrued in that way handed over to the county government, to ensure that they are used in bettering healthcare.
“This assembly urges the County Executive to develop a policy to regulate parking charges by private hospitals in the county to avert exploitation by owners of premises through high parking fees when patients and the general public visit such premises for services,” she added.
Her claims about Okoth were backed by Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko who on Thursday made it public that Okoth had an affair.
Speaking during Okoth's memorial service at Moi Girls High School, he urged the family of Okoth to acknowledge the second woman as his other widow.
"The Late Ken Okoth has a child named Okoth with one Annitah, who is a nominated MCA in the County Assembly of Nairobi. Let us not lie to ourselves. It is not wrong to have more than one wife. Recently President Kenyatta signed into law a bill allowing polygamy," Sonko said.
Okoth succumbed to colorectal cancer on Friday last week at the Nairobi Hospital.