Father stops daughter’s wedding claiming that he was not told in Nyeri

Monday 3^rdMarch 2014 - Drama unfolded yesterday at a church in Othaya, Nyeri after a man stormed in and stopped a wedding. The man, father to the bride alleged that he was not aware of the wedding and for that reason, it would not happen.

According to the bridegroom, Jeff Wanjau, a Reverend at House of Mercies Prophetic Church where the wedding was taking place, he had visited the home of the bride severally but the father was not there. Even when they found him once, he asked them to wait. Wanjau went ahead to talk to the in-laws who consented and the two love birds started wedding preparations.

However, come the D-Day, the father stormed the church and demanded to have his daughter, Alice Mukami, 27, back. He claimed that the 37 year old pastor was a womanizer who married women and dumped them and as a father, he did not want that to happen to his daughter.

Efforts by members of the congregation to calm him down bore no fruits and the two lovers were swiftly whisked away from the church in an unmarked car when the heat became too much to bear.

They are contemplating getting married secretly even without the father’s blessings.

The Kenyan DAILY POST