Former director of the National Youth Service (NYS) Nelson Gitau Githinji is embroiled in an ongoing child upkeep case filed by his ex-lover Miriam Omar Mzee.
The case filed on 20th December 2023 puts the businessman at crossroads with Miriam who is demanding a Ksh, 908,400 per year to cater for the child needs.
The Tononoka Magistrate Court on December 21 2024 gave Githinji 14 days to appear before it and the case has been ongoing without much public scrutiny into it.
Mr. Githinji has been accused by Miriam of neglecting parental duties to a child they allegedly sired together.
In the case, Miriam argues that she was involved in an intimate relationship with Mr. Githinji, and this culminated into the birth of one child named Mahmoud born on 5th June,2022.
She says that Mr. Githinji has neglected his child and failed/refused to completely provide for their child.
Miriam argues that she is a hairdresser with very limited income hence not able to cater for the child’s needs without Nelson’s support.
She made the decision to sue Mr. Githinji after he refused to co-operate with any manners of out-of-court settlement.
She made a list of demands she wants the court to order Mr Githinji to honor and this includes; catering for the child’s food and other basic needs valued at Ksh 45,000 per month which translates to Ksh 540,000 per year.
She also wants rent worth Ksh 20,000 per month translating to Ksh 240,000 per year, miscellaneous expenses at Ksh 5000 per month which is 60,000 per year diapers Ksh 3,200 per month which translates to 38,400 per year and clothing at Ksh 30,000 per year.
This in total translates to Ksh 75,700 per month and Ksh 908,400 per year which she is demanding from Githinji.
She also wants Mr. Githinji to make adequate contributions to education expenses incurred in respect of the said child and any other additional expenses for education as they may arise.
Miriam asked the court to find it that both her and Nelson have equal parenting responsibility and further requested that she remains in custody of the child.
She wants specifically the court to order Mr. Githinji to be paying Ksh, 75,700 monthly, child school fees and school related expenses, as well as take comprehensive medical cover for the child.
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Loading...Mr. Githinji is not new to court battles as he previously been accused of fraudulently acquiring public property after spending Sh497,335 taxpayers cash on June 10,2014 to service and repair his private vehicle KBS 475S purporting to be the cost used to repair a government vehicle.
He was however set free senior principal magistrate Lucas Onyina Onyango who terminated the case following a decision of the Court of Appeal which ruled that cases started against suspects when the EACC had no Commisioners were irregular.
The discharge led to dismissal of other NYS cases in which taxpayers list Billions through fraudulent transactions.
Prior to his appointment as the NYS boss, Dr Githinji had served as State House Comptroller from 2009.
He became the first official occupant of the position whose influence had been whittled down substantially when former President Mwai Kibaki split the roles of the State House Comptroller into two.
Dr Githinji, who describes himself as a selfless public servant, was thus responsible for finance and administration at the house on the hill.
Prior to the appointment as State House Comptroller, he had enjoyed a sterling career spanning 19 years in the private sector in various leadership roles.
He had served as head of sales and marketing, government relations, public policy, public affairs and community relations at Coca-Cola Africa.
He also worked with GlaxoSmithKline as group product manager (Food & Beverages) between 1994 and 2002.
