UHRC pins Otafiire on kids
THE Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has ordered the water, lands and environment minister, Kahinda Otafiire, to maintain his two children he abandoned.
By Solomon Muyita,/b>
THE Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has ordered the water, lands and environment minister, Kahinda Otafiire, to maintain his two children he abandoned.
UHRC commissioner Mariam Wangadya said Otafiire breached the Children Act that requires every parent to look after his or her children.
Allen Atukunda, a teacher of Wagawaga Primary School in Mbarara district, who filed the complaint in May last year, earlier told the tribunal that a DNA test proved 99.9% chances that Otafiire was the biological father of the children in question.
Otafiire was ordered to pay sh1.8m every year for the maintenance of the children.
He would be paying it in two installments of sh900,000, but required to pay the first one within seven days of the verdict.
UHRC ordered him to pay school fees directly to the school, plus sh100,000 damages to his mistress, Atukunda, for breach of the agreement they entered when they attempted to settle the matter our of the tribunal in mid-January.
He was, however, allowed to check on the children whenever he wished.
Otafire did now show up at the commission, but his advocate, Julius Kiirya, came to pick a copy of the verdict.
THE Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has ordered the water, lands and environment minister, Kahinda Otafiire, to maintain his two children he abandoned.
UHRC commissioner Mariam Wangadya said Otafiire breached the Children Act that requires every parent to look after his or her children.
Allen Atukunda, a teacher of Wagawaga Primary School in Mbarara district, who filed the complaint in May last year, earlier told the tribunal that a DNA test proved 99.9% chances that Otafiire was the biological father of the children in question.
Otafiire was ordered to pay sh1.8m every year for the maintenance of the children.
He would be paying it in two installments of sh900,000, but required to pay the first one within seven days of the verdict.
UHRC ordered him to pay school fees directly to the school, plus sh100,000 damages to his mistress, Atukunda, for breach of the agreement they entered when they attempted to settle the matter our of the tribunal in mid-January.
He was, however, allowed to check on the children whenever he wished.
Otafire did now show up at the commission, but his advocate, Julius Kiirya, came to pick a copy of the verdict.