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A Catholic priest accused of having a love affair with a married woman in Nyanza Province has gone into hiding fearing for his life.

The youthful priest has now taken refuge in Kisumu after a teacher he is alleged to have cuckolded attacked him and smashed his car windscreen.

Police arrested the teacher and booked him for malicious damage to property early last week.

The charges were later dropped following a reconciliation meeting between the priest and the teacher.

The incident has left Catholic faithful shocked. The woman at the centre of the scandal has now separated from her husband. “I cannot live with him anymore,” says the woman, who has denied the alleged love affair.

I am now in Nairobi. All those claims were false. My husband was misled by another woman who was after the same priest,” she claims.

The teacher said in an interview the affair between the priest and his wife had been going on for some time and it reached a point where he could not take it any more.

The priest, he says, used to visit their house frequently pretending to offer spiritual nourishment and had even tried to convince them to do a wedding.

The man says he later came to realise all this was a cover after the priest and his wife became so close he even bought her gifts.

He used to send her gifts and I can confirm the priest bought my wife a mobile phone. This raised my suspicion further,” he says.

HARSH WORDS

The man says the two started going for outings and drinking sprees in Kisumu and Busia where they were seen by his friends who told him about it.

The two used to frequent a pub in one of the towns in the province and people who saw them came to ask me what was going on,” he says.

The teacher, who had some very harsh words for the priest, adds he realised the wife was cheating on him when she started asking for permission to visit relatives overnight only to end up being seen in compromising situations with the priest.

I made several attempts to meet the priest over the matter but he always made excuses,” he says.

He described the priest as a clever and slippery man who always told him whenever he confronted him, “We need to talk, but I’m sorry I’m in a hurry right now.” He would then drive off.

But two Saturdays ago, he waylaid the priest and smashed the windscreen of his vehicle with a metal bar as he tried to speed off.

The priest later drove to a police station and reported the matter. The teacher was summoned to the station where he gave his version of the story.

The priest later withdrew the charges and the two were ordered to keep the peace.

Counselled

A senior police officer confirmed that the two had been at the station where they were counselled and allowed to go.

But the priest later visited The Standard’s Kisumu office and denied the allegations.

I am being framed. It’s true I have been a close family friend to the couple but I had no affair with the woman,” said the priest who requested anonymity.

He added: “People are asking why the woman has been travelling in my car. There is nothing wrong with this because even his husband has hiked a lift in my car on several occasions.”

He confirmed claims by his alleged lover a barmaid was behind his troubles.

This is all fitina (malice) by a barmaid who wanted me to befriend her. She became hostile after I turned down her advances,” the priest said.

He says he has taken a short break from his parish so things could cool down. “I am not in hiding. I am just taking a break,” he adds.

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