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This could be the ultimate victory for single mothers and their children. Men will no longer have a say on whether their names should be included in the birth certificates of children they sired out of wedlock.
High Court judge Mumbi Ngugi ruled yesterday that section 12 of Births and Deaths law, which gave the man the final say on whether his name should appear on a birth certificate, is against the Constitution and the right of a child to have a name.
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