Laikipia Woman Representative Catherine Waruguru was on Saturday night forced to seek for alternative accommodation after a hotel she had book a room denied her entry after she failed to produce a marriage certificate.

Waruguru and her husband had a room reserved for them at Sunshine Upperhill hotel located in Kericho, but were turned away after failing to produce the document.

The hotel, situated opposite Kericho’s Moi Gardens, has a strict rule requiring couples to produce a marriage certificate before checking into any of their accommodation rooms.

” It is against our rules for a man and woman outside wedlock to sleep in one room,” a notice outside the hotel door reads.

The MP had visited her father-in-law and other members of the extended family in Kericho together with her husband. 

“I checked at the hotel at 4PM and filled the registration card which I indicated my name and my husband’s name and was given room 402,” she said as confrontation ensued with some of the hotel’s attendants.

On returning at the hotel at 9pm, the two were denied access to the room they booked earlier. She said she had since developed a cold due to the harsh Kericho weather. 

“My odd innocent question before Kenyans is that where in the Constitution or County Government Act states and reads that any female or male who may wish to spend a night in any given room in any hotel must produce a marriage certificate,” Waruguru said. 

She left the hotel in a huff at 11pm. Waruguru said the incident embarrassed and vowed to raise the issue in Parliament. 

“We will not allow any more married women and men to suffer embarrassment in the hand of hospitality industry players who feel that someone cannot spend money for a room and spend it there in a dignified way until they produce a marriage certificate,” she said. 

Waruguru has in the past confessed that she’s in a polygamous marriage and is happy about it.