BY SAM ALFAN.
A woman has sued former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s nephew and aide Jomo Gecaga seeking Sh2.7 monthly fee to cater for two children allegedly sired by him.
The woman, a former TV queen wants the court to direct Jomo to start paying the monthly maintenance fee starting June 2023.
The money will cater for the minors’ food shopping, shelter, clothing, entertainment, utility bills and staff salaries.
She also wants the court to order Jomo to clear school fees balance including the costs for the extra-curricular activities including school clubs and incidental expenses for their twins for the current academic term.
“I am apprehensive that Jomo may have intentions to permanently relocate any time from Kenya together with the minors without her knowledge given that he is possession of their original documents and it is in the best interests of the children herein for the orders sought in this application to be granted,” the mother of three said in court documents.
She is also seeking an order from the court compelling Jomo to enroll and pay school fees for their children in a formal school to be agreed upon by both of them.
The agreement, according to the woman should be reached within seven days of the court order and the arrangement should last until the matter is concluded.
“In an unexpected turn of events and for no apparent reason, the Defendant began to systematically drop all support for the three minors in 2018. First, he stopped paying for child’s school fees entirely, which resulted in her being her removal from Peponi School and is currently being homeschooled and has not resumed formal education,” says the mother of three.
She is also seeking an order restraining the former president man, his servants or agents under his authority from taking the minors away from the country, without leave and authority of the court.
According to former TV queen, Jomo used to provide for the kids from 2015-2018, as their father and he introduced them to a high standards of living while living in Runda.
She adds that he then withdrew support for all workers, nannies, chefs and security and eventually stopped visiting the minors despite promising to do so numerous times.
She says they eventually evicted from the Runda home and they were forced to seek shelter in a small home with manageable expenses.
The sudden shift of lifestyle greatly affected the minors psychologically, he says.
“At the time of being evicted from the Runda home, the twins had joined the Vale School- Muthaiga which they also dropped out and started being homeschooled alongside her daughter.
According to the court documents seen by NairobiTimez, in 2020, she lost her job at one of the local TV station and she does not have a regular income.
She says that the three minors are used to a certain kind of lifestyle and that needs to be maintained to ensure their emotional needs are not compromised.
“Therefore, in an attempt to maintain the level of lifestyle which the minors were used to and to ensure that they do not fall into depression, the Plaintiff has been taking loans,” says the mother of three.
According to her, Jomo has been supporting the minors’ single- handedly through loans, the help she gets from her family, friends and limited help from the minors’ grandfather- Udi Gecaga through the family trust.
Since 2020, Uhuru’s former private Assistant refused to pay and has not been paying the minors’ school fees and any upkeep expenses.
“The minors have not been getting formal education since 2020 and are currently being home-schooled and Jomo has only begun to show interest towards the maintenance and care of the minors after she issued him with a demand letter in February 2023,” she says.
She adds that after the issuance of the demand letter, Jomo enrolled the twins to the Vale School Muthaiga in April 2023 and paid school fees although he did not pay for extra-curricular activities and the minors are being denied to participate in the school clubs’ activities due to the non-payment.
She argues that she was not consulted and they did not agree as parents’ before-hand on which school the twins would be enrolled to and Gecaga has also visited the minors twice in the month of May 2023.
“It is noteworthy that daughter is still being homeschooled and has not yet been enrolled to any school and he has a dual citizen of Kenya and England and holds a diplomatic passport,” says the mother of two.
She argues that the father is withholding the original birth certificates and passports of all the three minors and has refused despite numerous requests, to grant her access to the documents.
