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Court bars women from naming children without father's consent

Justice Roselyn Aburili made the directive after revoking a birth certificate dated April 27, 2023, which was obtained by a Kisumu woman for her nine-year-old son after the alleged father disowned paternity and sought his name be removed from the certificate.

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