Trader to sustain boy in Sonko case

Nairobi Senator Mike Mbuvi Sonko in a Kibera court on during a past hearing

Nairobi Senator Mike Mbuvi Sonko in a Kibera court on during a past hearing. He is involved in a paternity suit in a Kwale court.

    In his application filed against Ms Thuku and Mr Sonko, the businessman said he was willing to be subjected to a DNA test but opposed the one on his son with a “stranger”.
    Mr Hudson Wachira, who claims to be the real father of the six-year-old boy, was Friday ordered to pay Sh15,000 per month to the boy’s mother, Ms Josephine Thuku.


A businessman has been ordered to pay for maintenance of a boy at the centre of a paternity row involving Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko.

Mr Hudson Wachira, who claims to be the real father of the six-year-old boy, was Friday ordered to pay Sh15,000 per month to the boy’s mother, Ms Josephine Thuku.

This comes a week after a court suspended a DNA test that was to be conducted to determine if Mr Sonko is the boy’s biological father.

Ms Thuku, who is from Kwale, had claimed that the senator is the father of the child and asked the court to order him to take up parental responsibility.

Mr Sonko and Ms Thuku have a child born in 1999, but he has denied being the six-year-old boy’s father.

Last week, Mr Wachira, a clearing and forwarding agent, moved to the High Court in Mombasa and obtained orders suspending the DNA test.

He said he had been “demeaned, trivialised and traumatised” by an order from a Kwale court subjecting his son to a DNA test “with a stranger” without his permission.

He said Ms Thuku was after financial gain from “big fishes” because he is not financially stable.

In his application filed against Ms Thuku and Mr Sonko, the businessman said he was willing to be subjected to a DNA test but opposed the one on his son with a “stranger”.

LIVED WITH THE WOMAN

Mr Wachira claimed he lived with the woman from 2003 to March 2008, as husband and wife, at Kisimani in Mombasa, before they separated, after which their son was born on May 21, 2008.

“I have all along been willing to take care of my son but the first respondent (Ms Thuku) has been unwilling to let me have him alleging that she is able and willing to take care of him without my help,” Mr Wachira said.

Mr Justice Martin Muya gave the woman and the senator time to respond to Mr Wachira’s application. The case will be mentioned on December 4, for directions.