In Re BNK (A Minor) [2008] KEHC 2583 (KLR)

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA

AT NAIROBI (NAIROBI LAW COURTS)

Adoption Cause 61 of 2007

IN THE MATTER OF B N K – MINOR

JUDGMENT

The applicant JJG seeks authority to adopt Baby BNK.  He is a Kenyan citizen who is a businessman in Nairobi.  He is married to GMJ who is of Indian nationality and who happens to be the natural mother of the baby.

The material on the record confirm that the child for all purposes already belongs to the applicant except that being a biological mother of the wife of the Applicant who is Indian in nationality, makes the child also hold Indian citizenship with all the difficulties this raises during travel and other circumstances.

It is not surprising then that the applicant wishes to make the child Kenyan.

I have considered the case and I am satisfied that this application should be allowed.  The applicant is married to the biological mother of the child and lives with both.  For all purposes the child is already that of the applicant.  The most logical thing to do is to legalise the relationship.  I do so by the following orders.

ORDERS

1.     The Applicant JJG is hereby authorized to forthwith adopt Baby BNK who henceforth will be known as N J G.

2.     The Registrar-General is hereby directed to enter this adoption in the Adoption Register.

Dated and delivered at Nairobi this 9th day of May, 2008.

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D A ONYANCHA

JUDGE