Why Pastor Kanyari won custody despite children’s wish to remain with stepfather

'Prophet' Victor Kanyari during an interview in the parking lot of a popular city mall on November 4, 2014.

Correspondent

Nation Media Group

A magistrates’ court has awarded preacher Victor Kanyari custody of his two children with late gospel singer Betty Bayo, but ordered a gradual transfer from their stepfather’s care.

The court said the stepfather, Hiram Gitau, alias Tash, failed to prove his alleged Kikuyu customary marriage to the late singer, having provided no sufficient evidence of customary rites, dowry arrangements, marriage negotiations or witnesses to establish the union.

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Source: Daily Nation