An Asian aircraft engineer is embroiled in a bitter legal battle with his ex-wife over the custody and maintenance of their two children, aged three years and one year.
The Wilson Airport-based engineer, identified in court documents as J.V., has filed a petition at the Eldoret Law Courts seeking access to his two children and full custody of them.
The children, a boy and a girl, are currently living with their mother, identified as N.A., in Eldoret City, Uasin Gishu County.
Appearing before Senior Resident Magistrate Kimani Mukabi, the engineer narrated how his efforts to access his children had allegedly been frustrated by his former wife.
He told the court that he had not bonded with his children since last year after divorcing their mother following frequent family disputes. He urged the court to grant him full custody of the children.
“My former wife has flatly denied me access to my children after relocating to her mother’s home in Eldoret City. I am pleading with the court to grant me full custody of the children so that I can move on with my life in peace,” J.V. stated.
He further informed the court that contrary to his ex-wife’s claims that he had neglected the welfare and upkeep of the children, he had continued to provide for their food and other needs.
The engineer accused his former wife of portraying him as an irresponsible father despite allegedly sending her money every month to cater for the children’s needs.
J.V. cited an incident last year in which he sent Sh15,000 via M-Pesa for shopping for the children, only for the money to be returned to him with claims that the amount was insufficient.
In her response, N.A. dismissed her ex-husband’s claims, insisting that he had not sent any money towards the upkeep of the children since January.
She asked the court to compel him to cater for the children’s medical expenses, education, transport and school trips, while she would continue providing food, shelter and paying the house help.
The mother of two also denied claims that she had blocked her former husband from seeing the children, stating that she had generally allowed him access despite their divorce.
“Your Honour, I only barred him from accessing the children last year after he took our son to Nairobi without consulting me. In fact, I had to seek the intervention of the court to have the child returned to my custody,” she told the magistrate.
In her testimony, N.A. explained that she ended the marriage because of what she described as years of abuse and mistreatment.
She claimed that throughout their five-year marriage, she endured cruelty and emotional distress to the extent that she once contemplated aborting their second-born child.
“I was living in a toxic relationship throughout my marriage to J.V. He constantly mistreated me and shouted at me in the presence of our children, his mother and his two sisters, with whom we lived,” she told the court.
She further stated that persistent interference in the marriage by her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law contributed to the breakdown of the relationship.
The court also heard that the engineer lost his father when he was only 13 years old.
Magistrate Mukabi directed both parties to file their written submissions ahead of the judgment, which is scheduled for August.
The matter will be mentioned on July 28, 2026.
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