Labour Principal Secretary Nelson Marwa in hot soup after a woman in Kitale moved to court claiming to have borne him a daughter.
Elizabeth Moraa, 27, on Tuesday urged a Kitale court to order the former Coast coordinator to support the child, accusing him of child neglect.
The 27-year-old woman claims that the PS paid Sh50,000 for hospital costs and has since failed to support his one-year-old daughter.
Moraa claims Marwa is the biological father of her one-year-old daughter and “deliberately refused, ignored and neglected to discharge his parental responsibilities towards the child from the time she was born”.
She also claimed that when the infant was born through a caesarean section, Marwa gave her Sh50, 000 to settle the hospital bill. The girl was born on February 7, 2018, she said.
She alleged that she and Marwa had an intimate relationship that began in January 2017.
At the time she met the Marwa she was living in Mombasa and he was Regional Coast Coordinator.
“I have been forced by economic circumstances to stay with a cousin in Kitale, since the minor was born through CS. He has never seen the child to date though he sometimes minimally supports the mother,” read her affidavit presented in court.
Moraa also claimed Marwa declined to provide his identity card so that the child could be issued a birth certificate.
She asked the court to order that actual legal custody, care and control of the minor be left to her.
The woman said the Sh180,000 would include Sh50,000 rent, food and maintenance Sh90,000, medical care Sh10,000, househelp Sh20,000 and entertainment Sh20,000.
However, through advocate Onyango Issac, Marwa denied the allegations, saying the entire suit filed by the plaintiff was bad in law and fundamentally defective.
He said that the complainant was a stranger to him and he is not conversant with the allegations filed in court.
Marwa said that while he was Regional Commissioner, Coast Region until in 2018 he dealt with members of the public and government officials. He said such meetings were purely official and he did not engage with anyone he met or had any intimate relationship as alleged.
Senior resident magistrate C. M. Kesse ordered both parties to present themselves within 14 days for collection of DNA samples at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital.
“Where the DNA samples shall be tested and report filed in court within one month from the date hereof,” she ordered.
The matter will be heard on April 23, 2019