Wedding Called Off After A Man Claimed To Be The Father of Both The Bride And The Groom

• To save the family from shame, the pastor told those who had attended that the church leadership had resolved to call off the wedding as the couple had defaulted guidance from church elders with regards to purity before a wedding.

There was drama in Tana River over the weekend as a wedding was called off after a man stormed the venue claiming to have sired both the bride and the groom.
In a story that was first published by The Nation News Paper, The couple was forced to cancel their colourful garden wedding when a man claiming to be their father emerged just as they were about to walk down the aisle.
Anne Magwi and Jotham Munini, children raised by single parents, had walked into the church on Saturday for their wedding when their alleged father, alongside his sisters, stormed the venue to stop the wedding, terming it an abomination.
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According to Holy Redemption Ministries Pastor Festus Muli, the man claiming paternity for the couple said he had sired children with both women involved in the wedding before they parted ways due to various reasons.
“He said one of the children, the groom, was sired in an informal relationship that did not end well, while the bride was conceived from the woman with whom he had a clandestine relationship at the time,” said Mr Muli.
The pastor explained that the man, James Sidai, claimed that after the wife discovered he was having an affair, their relationship became toxic and she fled with their child, who was just a year old then.
It is then that he tried to build a stronger relationship with his other lover only for it to end due to financial constraints at the time, which triggered frequent misunderstandings.
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She left with a four-month-old pregnancy, and would later get married to a school teacher a year later.
Pastor Muli told the Daily Nation that Mr Sidai produced photos of the two children when they were younger and in college, which he had obtained from friends and relatives who had interacted with them.
“This man remarried and has three children with the current wife, but has never been in contact with the children he sired out of wedlock until he learned of a wedding through a friend who also shared it on a certain WhatsApp group. That is when he decided to make this trip and trace the church,” said the pastor.
According to Sidai’s nephew, who sought anonymity, the man has been trying to trace his children for the past 10 years in vain.
Both the parents who are well known to Sidai were quickly called to a meeting by the pastor to salvage the situation.
To save the family from shame, the pastor told those who had attended that the church leadership had resolved to call off the wedding as the couple had defaulted guidance from church elders with regards to purity before a wedding.
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Sources would later reveal that the groom, a businessman in Madogo town, walked out of the meeting an angry man and drove away in his car leaving his mother in tears.
The bride, on the other hand, was whisked away with her mother and relatives in another car.