Justice David Maraga |
Chief Justice of Kenya, Justice
David Maraga has dismissed claims that he sired a child out of wedlock.
Maraga on
Tuesday said through lawyer Danstan Omari that the birth certificate alleged to
be that of his 'daughter' is fake.
"We
have had a perusal and due diligence of the annexures that have been filed to
accompany this. For those who have access to the birth certificate... there is
no registrar known as Shamwata in the whole country nor has there been an
officer with the name N.P Otieno," Omari said.
"This certificate is generated not a document
to be relied on."
Omari
said there had been pressure on the Chief Justice to resign before his term
ends.
Mary Kwamboka,
the woman alleging the CJ is the father of her child, went to the Milimani law
courts on Tuesday, dressed in a grey dress and red coat and caused a scene.
She
screamed, "Nimechoka na hii story, mbona mnanizungusha na hii story
kila wakati?" (I'm tired of all this... why are you taking me round in
circles?)
"Maraga amekataa
kugaramia mtoto wake... anataka mimi nimgaramie mimi mwenyewe."
(Maraga has refused to take care of his child. He wants me to take care of the
child by myself.)
Kwamboka
alleged she met Maraga in 2013 and had an affair with him.
"I
now have a six-year-old daughter. I have the documents and have been filing
cases here. He was summoned by the Children's Department but he refused to
come," she said.
Kwamboka
claimed she met Maraga in church and "could not divulge all the
information since the case is in court".
"We used to go to Nakuru, Naivasha
everywhere that is high-end..." she said.
However,
Omari dismissed the allegations.
"The CJ
is an elder of the SDA Church. The DPP should get to the root of it. We are not
worried about the girl but more about who is behind it," he said.
There has
been a push and pull between the Judiciary and the Executive on a number of
issues.
Last month,
Kenyans were treated to high drama between the Judiciary and the
Executive.
Maraga
washed the dirty linen in public, exposing the goings on between the two arms
of government.
He first
protested the Executive Order by President Uhuru Kenyatta to reorganise
government.
He claimed the President doesn’t have constitutional powers to institute changes in the Judiciary (Article 132).
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