Shocker for women in new court order on paternity

Justice Githinji Stephen Murugu PHOTO:COURTESY

Having a man’s name on a child’s birth certificate alone will no longer be taken as proof that he is the father.

Ruling by High Court judge Stephen Githingi is likely to elicit fresh controversy, coming shortly after Justice Mumbi Ngugi empowered women to register the names of the men they have children with on their birth certificates, even without their consent. This was to be taken as proof that a man had fathered the child.