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Family drama as father rushes to court, blocks her daughter’s wedding
05th December, 2025 04:15 PM
A Nairobi Commercial Court has halted a wedding that was scheduled to take place on Saturday, December 6, 2025, over a family dispute that ought to be resolved through family negotiations and mediations.
Through a certificate of urgency filed at the Milimani Commercial Court, Francia Julius Ogallo argued that the mother of his daughter, Gladys Ong’ayo Ogallo, has deliberately taken steps to the effect of maliciously excluding, humiliating, and discriminating against him from the entire wedding process as a father.
Ogallo also avers that the respondent’s (Gladys’s) action has caused him emotional distress, adding that she is violating his constitutional rights as a parent.
He avers that he would be subjected to similar humiliation, injury to his reputation, and emotional harm should the wedding proceed in the manner currently planned, adding that he was subjected to the same during the wedding of their eldest daughter in 2021.
“That the respondent (Gladys) has now resumed similar conduct in respect of the forthcoming wedding, despite him (Ogallo) clearly communicating that he would not participate in the wedding should certain religious figures be involved,” part of the application read.
“That the parties herein were married on 15th August 1992, and the said marriage was dissolved on 24th October 2014.”
Humiliation and exclusion
Ogallo accuses his wife Gladys, whom he married on August 15, 1992, a marriage that was dissolved on October 24, 2014, of deliberate acts of humiliation, exclusion, and discrimination towards him, including using past personal disputes to alienate him from his children and extended family.
Milimani Commercial Court Principal Magistrate G.M. Gitonga has, on December 5, 2025, satisfied Ogallo’s application as urgent and issued a conservatory order barring the wedding from taking place on Saturday, December 6, 2025.
Further, he has blocked Gladys, her agents, or any servant under her from proceeding with the planned wedding that is scheduled to take place at her residence in Karen.
“That in the meantime a temporary order of injunction be and is hereby issued restraining the respondent, her agents, servants, representatives or any other persons acting at her behest from proceeding with, conducting, facilitating or in any other way participating in the planned wedding ceremony of the applicant’s daughter scheduled for Saturday, December 6, 2025, pending the said inter partes,” Magistrate Gitonga has ordered.
“That the order shall be served upon the OCS and the nearest police station for enforcement,” the court ordered.
