Kimwatu admits he had separated from Rosemary four months before her death
By Zipporah Ngwatu, August 28, 2026Kevin Migwe Kimwatu, the husband of the late Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) Executive Rosemary Chemutai Koech–Kimwatu, has confirmed that they separated four months prior to her death.
In his witness statement filed at Milimani Commercial Court, Kimwatu states that he married the deceased on August 24, 2013, and their marriage was a happy, loving and harmonious union characterised by mutual affection, companionship and support.
He, however, notes that their marriage also experienced challenges but states that the same were never of such gravity, magnitude or persistence as to detract him from the overall love, joy and happiness that defined his marriage to the deceased.
Notably, Kimwatu reveals that before the untimely death of his wife, they had separated for four months, adding that his late wife had requested to return to their matrimonial home, a request he had agreed to, allowing her to go back.
“I affirm that prior to her death, and following a period of separation of about four months, the deceased requested to return to the matrimonial home, to which request I duly agreed. Unfortunately, the deceased passed on before she could return home,” Kimwatu states.
Despite having separated from the deceased, Kimwatu avers that it is his prayer and wish to bury his wife at their ancestral home located in Matasia within Ngong Sub-County, Kajiado County, adding that it is the rightful place where she should be interred.
In seeking orders to block her burial at her parents’ home in Kericho County, he argues that Rosemary’s parents and sister have locked him out of all burial plans and arrangements and are set to bury her at their home in Kericho.
“Having not been involved in the burial arrangements, I am apprehensive that my deceased wife will not be given a befitting send-off and, further, whether our children and I will ever have access to the deceased’s grave site,” Kimwatu states.
He reveals that he has made funeral arrangements to bury his wife at their home in Matasia but says he has not been able to get her body for burial because that instructs the Lee Funeral Home to only release her body to her sister Judy.
Senior Principal Magistrate Agnes Mwangi on Friday, August 28, 2026, issued interim orders restraining KCB, its employees and Rosemary’s family from removing Rosemary’s remains from Lee Funeral Home and burying her pending hearing of Kimwatu’s application.