Woman Sues Sonko Demanding Sh448,000 in Monthly Child Support
A woman has sued former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko for child support, claiming he has neglected his parental responsibility of providing for their daughter.
Through lawyer Dan Okemwa, the woman is demanding monthly child upkeep of Sh448,450 to cater for food and shopping, rent, security, clothing, house help, entertainment, medical cover, education, transport, and utilities for their 15-year-old daughter.
According to Nation, she wants the court to compel Sonko to pay school fees of Sh86,000, school fees arrears of Sh37,000, Sh30,450 to cater for school-related expenses and uniforms, and provide medical cover and upkeep for the girl pending the hearing and determination of the case.
In the case filed at the magistrate court in Ngong, the woman says their daughter is a Form Two student and is yet to report back to school since it reopened on April 26th. She claims the politician has refused to provide for the minor’s basic needs such as education, good health, food, clothing, shelter, entertainment, and medication
“Sonko and I are the biological parents of the minor herein,” read court papers.
Describing Sonko as a person of means, the woman argues that their daughter is entitled to equal treatment and provision like his other children.
“The unequal treatment has affected the minor psychologically as she does not understand why her father is abrasive towards her. Besides, the minor has been bullied and ridiculed in school because of her surname thus causing her emotional trauma and has indicated she wants to be transferred from the school,” she adds.
The plaintiff claims to have met Sonko in 1999 and later entered into an on and off romantic relationship that led to the birth of their daughter on April 17th, 2007.
“Mr. Sonko has always been defiant and brazen to accept responsibility and assist me with the maintenance of the minor. He has over the years willfully withdrawn support towards the maintenance of the minor thus denying her what is rightfully hers and forcing me to take full responsibility for the minor,” she says.
“The Respondent is a politician and high-ranking businessman within the republic who lives a high-end life and is not willing to offer the minor the same kind of life while offering a high-end life to his other children, which is a clear indication of discrimination on his part.”
She claims that Sonko does not want anything to do with the minor even though he knows he is the biological father.
“I have always been willing to have a DNA test done to prove the paternity of the minor, a fact which Sonko is well aware of as we have discussed the same on several occasions,” she says in her affidavit.
The court directed her attorney to furnish Sonko with the court documents. The case will be mentioned on May 26th, 2022.