A UN employee has been ordered by a court to produce his three year old boy following a custody dispute with his wife. The Nairobi children’s court magistrate ordered Girrnay Haile, a senior employee with the UN to appear in court personally with the boy on March 17. He is accused of disobeying court orders directing him to hand over the child to his wife.
The court also directed that the summons be served through the diplomatic police unit because Haile is a senior employee of the UN. The magistrate issued the orders following an application by the wife. The couple, who got married in 2007, is separated. The court ordered that the boy lives with his mother and allowed Haile to see the child on some days. The wife moved to court after Haile took away the baby on February 23 and refused to return him.
Her lawyer Cecil Miller told the court that she fears that the action by her husband will deny the baby parental care and maternal love. Miller argued that the child is of tender age and it is necessary that be lives with his mother. The woman wants the court to order her husband to hand over the child to her and suspend Haile’s access to the child. She churns that the man has been denying that he has the boy.
