A Kenya woman has told a Mombasa High Court that her former boyfriend, a senior UK detective, wants to use their son as a bait to get parenting payments from his government.
HN has filed a case opposing her estranged boyfriend, KC, from registering their three-year-old son as a United Kingdom and Irish citizen. She claims KC, who now works as a security consultant in Asia, has squandered his wealth and is now out to use the son for financial gain.
“Registration of our son is only aimed to benefit KC, who is now retired and will, therefore, be paid handsomely by the British government through our son,” states HN.
KC, however, denies the claims, saying HN is holding on to the son in order to continue demanding child support from him. He claims to have bought her a house in Mombasa worth Sh11 million.
“HN regards the child as her lifetime ATM and she is fearful he may be taken from her,” says KC, adding that HN’s lifestyle will affect the moral and physical quality of their son.
On November 9, HN filed a case before Mombasa High Court Judge Justice John Onyiego to challenge orders issued by a Children’s Court at Tononoka over the son’s custody.
Tononoka Resident Magistrate L K Sindani had ordered HN to allow KC visitation rights besides halting all insults and selling the family house.
She was also directed to furnish KC with the son’s birth certificates to secure his British citizenship and European Union passport. But in her affidavits, HN claimed the birth documents “mysteriously disappeared” from their home.
KC and HN became friends after they met in 2016 in Diani, Kwale County when he was touring Kenya. The friendship blossomed into love and they were blessed with a son in 2017. KC has been coming for visits from Britain ever since.
But in suit papers filed at a Mombasa High Court, the two accuse each other of promiscuity and how each is not fit to raise the kid.
In denying the accusations, KC says he is respectable member of society, who served as a senior Scotland Yard officer for 30 years. He, instead, accuses HN of denying him access to the son despite a court ruling that gave them shared custody. He has only seen his for seven of the 37 days he has been in Kenya. He said that despite attempts at mediation, their relationship has irrevocably ended.
“I’m most concerned with the welfare, safety and life prospects of my son. I want to protect him from the irrational and abusive behaviour of his mother,” said KC.
But HN fears losing the custody should the court order requiring her to surrender the son’s birth documents be sustained. On December 1, Justice Onyiego stopped all the proceedings at the Children’s Court and lifted a warrant of arrest issued against her for contempt of court.
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