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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Real P on February 25, 2015, 06:14:30 AM
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Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago’s child neglect case has been pushed to March 6.
The case was deferred to allow Mandago’s lawyers to gather documents refuting the claims by a teacher, said Eldoret Law Courts principal magistrate Mary Njagi.
Caroline Maina accused the governor of failing to provide for their son “despite being his legitimate father”.
She said during a hearing on Monday that she was married to Mandago from 1988 to 2002 and had the baby on January 18, 2001.
Mandago only paid the boy’s primary school fees and left him destitute afterwards, Maina claimed.
She said he transferred him from Chepngochoch Primary school, Sergoit to Mosop Glory Academy in 2012 when he was in class 6.
He neglected the boy in 2014 after he sat for his KCPE exams, she claimed, adding that the boy scored 342 marks.
Maina said she had the boy admitted to a high school in Elgeyo Marakwet without Mandago’s help.
She said she earns a salary of Sh8,000 working as an early childhood development teacher at ACK Kapkorach.
The money is not enough for the child’s personal and educational needs, she said.
She added that Mandago dishonoured a promise to buy them a house at Elgon View estate in Eldoret, forcing her to let the boy stay with his grandmother.
Maina said she sued Mandago for the sake of her son’s education, noting that he is capable of providing for him.
She said she is sure the child is his, but the governor denied the claims.
Last week, Njagi ordered Mandago to pay for the boy’s food, shelter, clothing, medical cover and education pending the hearing and determination of the case certified as urgent.
A woman named Caroline Maina is suing him over child support The Kenyan system is broken. The Governor has yet to provide for or contribute to the upkeep of his alleged son. So far his ex-wife is scraping by with help from her grandmother. I highly doubt he would have taken any steps to rectify this situation even if child support was court-ordered
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/governor-mandago-sued-over-neglecting-child-sired-2001-given-until-march-6-disprove-claim
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The law in kenya has to catch up with them deadbeat fathers. This is something our parliament can work on..of course the majority of men in parliament are also deadbeat. A jail term would be good start.
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This will remain impossible or hard until there is a requirement for EVERYBODY resident in Kenya to file tax returns and bank accounts, land registration, Voter register, Births and Deaths, Passport, Motor Vehicle Registry, Criminal History etc linked together.
It would also require ALL buildings to be numbered and registered in a database.