Lawyer Miguna Miguna has weighed in on a court case pitting a 62-year-old man against the family of Kenya's third President the late Mwai Kibaki.
Jacob Ochola Mwai has moved to court seeking recognition as one of the children of the former President.
According to the controversial lawyer, Ochola is a replica of the former President and one needs not a DNA test to confirm that they were relatives.
"Is DNA necessary in this case? I’m not Prophet Owuor and I know common law precedents are not on Ochola’s side on matters of inheritance, but what my eyes see here is Indisputable. Don’t you agree?" he posed.
Ochola Mwai, who has been in court for months, wants a share of the Kibaki family estate, estimated to be worth billions of shillings.
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Ochola, who was born in Nairobi’s Kaloleni estate on July 22, 1960, claims to have grown up not knowing that he was the son of Kibaki.
“When I turned 21, the person I knew as my father died. A year later, my mom disclosed to me that the man who had raised me was not my biological father. She told me she was going to talk to my father and introduce me to him, which she did after a month or so,” he said in a past interview.
His mother organized a meeting with Kibaki on June 21, 1982, during which he was shocked to know that the late president was the father.
“My adoptive father was a member of the Karen Country club just like the late president. I was raised in Karen and we frequented the club. Kibaki is someone I knew and so when the time came for me to meet my father, I never expected it to be the late president,” said Ochola.
“It’s not been easy for me having grown up speaking and thinking that I was Luo only to realize 22 years later that I was not from the lakeside tribe. I wish to state clearly that I am not the brother to the late president, I am his biological son.”
The court is expected to rule on whether the body of the former president will be exhumed for a DNA test or not.
