Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka has triggered a political and social media frenzy after publicly revealing that former IEBC commissioner Roselyn Akombe is his wife.
The revelation emerged during a memorial gathering held at the senator’s home as family and political leaders mourned the death of his mother, Mama Teresia Nyaboke Omoke.
Onyonka stunned mourners when he openly spoke about his polygamous family and his relationship with Akombe.
“My children are actually 12, and their mothers are known,” Onyonka said.
“What I know is that many of you don’t know that Roselyn Akombe is my wife.”
Richard Onyonka added that Akombe had developed a close bond with his late mother and often helped oversee her treatment abroad.
“She was treating her, she would take her to the US,” he said, drawing murmurs from the gathering.
Within hours, clips of the remarks exploded across Facebook, Instagram and X, with Kenyans expressing admiration and curiosity about the previously undisclosed relationship.
Yet it is Akombe’s own dramatic history that has made the revelation especially compelling.
Former iebc commissioner Roselyn Akombe is a wife to senator Richard Onyonka, najua wengi wameachwa Vinywa wazi. pic.twitter.com/Znpuem1zwi
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In 2017, the former UN political affairs expert rose to national and international prominence during Kenya’s disputed presidential election.
Appointed to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission earlier that year, Akombe became a familiar face during one of the country’s most volatile political periods.
But it was her dramatic resignation from the IEBC, while in New York weeks before the repeat presidential poll, that cemented her status as a consequential and controversial public figure.
At the time, Akombe declared that the commission could not guarantee a credible election amid internal divisions and security fears.
Her resignation caused a stir across the country and heightened doubts about the repeat vote’s legitimacy.
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Since then, Akombe has largely remained outside Kenya, continuing her work in peacebuilding and governance within the United Nations system.
But nearly a decade after the 2017 election turmoil, she has unexpectedly returned to the centre of Kenyan conversation this time through a deeply personal political revelation.
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