I'm Proud to be a Second Wife, Laikipia Woman Rep Catherine Waruguru Says after Kericho Hotel Room Drama

Laikipia Woman Representative Catherine Waruguru says she has no apologies for being a second wife and that she's happy being in a polygamous marriage.

Waruguru, who was over the weekend thrown out together with her husband for failing to produce a marriage certificate before checking into a hotel room in Kericho, dismissed reports that she was with a secret lover.

The two had booked a room at Sunshine hotel in Kericho, but were blocked from checking in after the hotel management demanded for the document. The hotel requires any man and woman to provide proof of marriage before being allowed to use their rooms.

"It is against our rules for a man and woman outside wedlock to sleep in one room," a notice outside the hotel door reads.

Speaking outside Parliament buildings on Monday, Waruguru said she was with her polygamous husband, contrary to rumors out there.

“I am hearing all sorts of rumours that I was with a ‘toy boy’. I was only with one man by the name William Kiprotich Kiget who is my husband. He is in a polygamous set up and I am not embarrassed about it,” the Woman Representative, who was accompanied by MPs Gathoni wa Muchomba (Kiambu) and Alice Wahome (Kandara), said.

She said she will be instituting legal proceedings against the hotel and its management. “I have been single and I know the kind of discrimination single women go through,” Waruguru said.

In support, Muchomba said: “When these two people decided to walk into a hotel and do their job, what business do you have with that activity? It is not the basic function of a hotelier to ask you who you are going to sleep with and how you are going to sleep with that person.”