A woman who got pregnant when she was having an affair with a Kiambu MCA while she was 17 wants him to pay for his daughter’s upkeep.

She has urged the Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko to speed up her case.

The 19-year-old woman gave birth in February last year.

I met the MCA while I was in form two, she told the Star at her home in Zambezi village, Kikuyu constituency.

“I was working at a butchery in Kingeero village at the neighbouring Kabete constituency during school holidays, when several Kiambu MCAs visited and I was the one serving them meat. That is when I met him and he asked for my number,” she said.

“Days later, he called me and asked me to meet him in Kikuyu town, where he told me that he wanted to have an intimate relationship with me.”

The woman agreed on condition that the MCA pays her school fees.

“I became pregnant and our relationship... has never been the same again,” she said.

The girl was kicked out of school.

She lives in a one-roomed house with five members of her family.

Her mother and grandmother took care of her until she gave birth.

“My dream of becoming a lawyer was crushed. The MCA, who never denied responsibility [for the pregnancy], promised he would be giving me Sh10,000. But I only got Sh5,000,” she said.

“The last time I saw him he gave me Sh500.”

The woman says she only wants the MCA to keep his promise of paying her school fees.

“I also wish he could give me monthly child support for his daughter so I can employ someone to take care of her as I go to school,” she said.

The MCA ignored the chief’s summons on May 25, 2013.

On October 22 last year, the district children’s officer in Kikuyu wrote to the National Legal Aid and Awareness Programme.

Courtesy of the-star.co.ke