Dennis Okari and Kathy Kiuna
He bluntly told Kathy “Nobody really cares about your story, you are just entertainment on social media”.
Okari opened up about his failed marriage to Betty Kyallo, and how it made him feel remorseful, about the way it ended, terming it a marriage not blessed by God. Kathy asked him “It was a big thing, it was nationwide, at that moment, who are you? Are you prodigal, where are you?”
He responded before that he had got into prayer for direction that led to an interview for a prospective job on Radio Maisha. The interview panel instead offered him a position on KTN. That is where he met Betty. “So I’m working on tv, having the time of my life, bought a car, I am young, I am single, so I meet Betty in the newsroom. She was an intern, so we became friends. She also wanted to read news”
He mentored Betty, and that work relationship evolved.
“We became very close friends and to cut a long story short, later on as I’m working there, we had a relationship and out of that relationship, we had a child, and so the reality of this has happened, what do I do?”
This was not in his plans, but he had to make a decision “This is not what I had planned, I think I’ve lost my way, what do I do?”
He spoke to his parents and said of the outcome “So we got our daughter and started living together and life just continued moving on. Then it got to a point where I felt its every girls dream to have a wedding”
How soon after the wedding was this feeling?
“It was so fast” he sighed adding “it was so fast, to be honest, I wish I never did it, but I did it out of a good heart, to try and correct a wrong, you see we have a child out of wedlock, it was always my dream and desire, you do a wedding then you have a kid”
“I had seen it from my parents as well, so I’m breaking protocol. but here I am, there is a child, so why don’t we make this official then? But inside my spirit I felt this is just not right to correct this. I didn’t know two wrongs don’t make a right, I never consulted God in this. And so, I was pushing my weight around everything, pushing to make it work, and things started happening, and as fate would have it, the drifting and everything, I won’t get into too many details, but i got to a point where it couldn’t just last.”
“So alot of things now began to come out, and all these stories that are coming out and I’m caught up in the cross fire, the attention is on me, you know, but deep down there was something I was struggling with, and I’ve never shared this, but what I was struggling with was this one thing, was this thing of God, Was this marriage of God? I couldn’t answer it, I couldn’t tell you Yes, but I couldn’t tell you no,”
The public shame was too much he withdrew from everything and became closed. He sought Gods answers about seeking a divorce.
“What God told me to do, he told me to get out of social media, I deleted all my platforms, God told me stay out for one year.”
He got into depression, “That marriage was not of God, she was not really my wife, i was not her husband, it was not meant to be. ” He shared. His healing from that came through service to God.
by MAUREEN WARUINGE
