This archive report was first published on 29 November 2019.
Published on November 29, 2019, a court has ordered Dennis Itumbi, a blogger and government official, to pay child support for a child he fathered.
Itumbi, who claims to work as Innovation, Digital and Diaspora Communication Director in the Office of the President, will pay monthly child upkeep money amounting to Sh. 20,000 pending the determination of the case.
The mother of the child, Hildah Moraa, had filed a case claiming that Itumbi deserted the child from birth and has refused to provide any form of support, knowing fully well that she is an orphan and had to stop working before giving birth.
According to lawyer Enricah Dulo, Itumbi and the woman dated for almost a year, between January and August 2018, before the relationship abruptly ended.
“He ended the relationship sometime in August 2018 when the lady informed him that she was pregnant with his child. She successfully delivered a female child on June 14, this year,” lawyer Dulo said in court papers.
The court directed that Itumbi should also be granted reasonable access to the child, but the mother be granted actual and legal custody of the minor.
“We want a copy of his national identity card so that his name can be included in the minor’s certificate of birth, and we will also be asking him to set up a trust for the minor, because the baby girl is his only known child,” lawyer Dulo added.
