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Makuyu, Kenya: The 71-year-old grandmother who has married a 19-year-old Form Four student yesterday denied that she was a cradle snatcher, saying she was following the dictates of her god.
At the same time, the teenager said that no amount of threats, intimidation or raw force could force him abandon the wife God had ordered him to marry.
Investigations by the East African Standard revealed that the couple was living together in the same house about 7 km from Makuyu town.
It took hours of searching for journalists to come face to face with the ailing grandmother responsible for luring the boy out of school.
Nyanginda wa Gicharu the woman who has in the recent weeks become a pariah for marrying James Mburu Kamau however, defended herself: What God has ordered, no man can change.
The woman, whose five children are all married, said she was happy that Mburu had chosen her following the will of God.
She said she has been giving her new husband odd jobs to sustain himself. God had ruled that one should only eat if he works, she said.
Mburu was, however, economical with words and kept referring to his prophetic vision which had driven him out of class into the arms of a woman older than his biological mother.
I am not going back to school. Never. I discovered that I have been living a lie all my life. Now I have discovered God and happiness, said Mburu with finality.
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