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The High Court has ordered the Registrar of Births to remove "strange father" from a minor's birth certificate.
The case involves a six-year-old boy who supposedly has two fathers. While the minor has a biological father, the one registered on his birth certificate is different.
Justice John Onyiego said it was unfair for the registrar to decline to rectify the birth certificate even after a DNA test ascertained who the father of the boy is.
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