Two doctors set for second DNA test

By Beauttah Omanga

Two doctors will undergo another DNA test to ascertain the paternity of a 10-month-old baby.

Dr John Muchire Ndegwa and Dr Samuel Wainaina have denied fathering the baby with Ms Beatrice Wanja.

On Wednesday, Nakuru Senior Resident Magistrate Elizabeth Tanui ruled that a second DNA test was necessary to clear doubts raised by Ndegwa, who the initial Government Chemist results indicated was the father.

"Those DNA results were doctored and I am demanding for a second test, which I will be ready to pay for. As far as I am concerned, I am not the father of the minor but Wainaina is," Ndegwa claimed.

He further alleged that, "Wanja and Wainaina had a long standing relationship dating back to childhood and he is the father."

Ndegwa has denied Wanja’s claims that he had been taking care of her.

He moved to court seeking a second DNA test after another court received results that showed he was 99.99 per cent the biological father of the baby.

Interference

But Wanja opposed the application saying Government Chemist results cannot be influenced.

"I am opposed to a second round of DNA on grounds that at a private institution, the outcome will be prone to interference than at the nationally acclaimed national institution — Government Chemist," Wanja said in her affidavit.

She told the court that Ndegwa demanded the initial test after she moved to court seeking maintenance for the baby.

"Ndegwa should not be allowed to take everyone on a wild goose chase only because the results did not favour him," argued Wanja.

But Ndegwa said there was no reluctance of him and Wainaina being subjected to a test.

Wainaina in his affidavit also agrees with Wanja that Ndegwa was misusing the court process to run away from his parental responsibility. But Ndegwa said the two knew they were the parents but were out to implicate him.

In her ruling, Ms Tanui said the decision by Dr Ndegwa to seek a second DNA was in order and did not amount to abuse of court process.

Meanwhile, a Nyeri court has slapped a Sh900,000 fine on a Chinese road construction company and its three drivers for overloading lorries.

The drivers Sammy Lusila James Njuguna and John Mutahi were each fined Sh450,000 by Principal Magistrate Daniel Ogembo after they pleaded guilty to overloading the lorries owned by China Covic on Kiganjo-Nyeri road on November 10.