In Re AGM (a child) [2009] KEHC 804 (KLR)

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA

AT NAIROBI (NAIROBI LAW COURTS)

Adoption Cause 174 of 2007

IN THE MATTER OF THE CHILDREN ACT

AND

IN THE MATTER OF A G M (A CHILD)

AND

P N M & A M K.…..............APPLICANTS.

R U L I N G

Before me is an Originating Summons dated 22nd October, 2007 filed by M/s Tongoi & Company advocates for the applicants.  The prayers in the Originating Summons that are pending for my determination are prayers 2 and 3 as follows-

2.   THAT P.N.M & A.M.K be authorized to adopt the child.

3.    THAT upon the making of the adoption order the child be known as L.M.N.N.

This is an application for local adoption.  The applicants are married under Kikuyu Customary Law.  They have not have had a biological child of their own.  They are business people.

The child is an abandoned child found abandoned at Thika Hospital.  Parents are unknown and nobody has so far come forward to claim the child.  Child was initially committed by the court to Mama Ngina Children Home in 2006.  The applicants currently live with the child who now attends school.  There is good bonding.  The reports filed recommend the adoption.

Having considered the facts placed before me, I am of the view that the adoption is in the best interests of the child.  Consequently, I allow the application and order as follows-

1.   P. N. MandA. M.K are hereby authorized to adopt the child ANNEX GM who will be known asL. M.N. N.

2. The Registrar-General is hereby ordered to enter this

adoption in the adopted children register.

Dated at Nairobi this 30th day of October,  2009.

George Dulu

Judge.