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A MUTARE woman is at risk of paying back 19 months worth of maintenance money as compensation to her ex-hubby after DNA tests revealed that the child was not his. Ruth Portia Nyikadzino has been receiving $20 interim maintenance from her ex-husband Norest Tsenesa for her five year-old child for the past 19 months. However, luck was not on her side as the DNA test results revealed that the child was not Tsenesa’s who was her husband at that time.
“I want her to pay me back the maintenance that I have been paying for the past 19 months and all the costs that I incurred during the blood tests,” said Tsenesa. Mutare magistrate Mrs Yeukai Chigodora discharged the interim maintenance and advised Tsenesa that it was in his right to claim for the maintenance that he had paid.
“You are however, not entitled to being compensated of the DNA test costs because you are the one who requested for the tests,” she said. Nyikadzino however, seemed unmoved by the results and insisted that Tsenesa had fathered the child and resorted to blaming the National Blood Services for having doctored the tests.
“The results are not authentic and I knew it from the start, the NBS staff’s actions seemed weird when we went there. “They kept on insisting that there was no electricity and that the tests had to be done some other time and I am still not convinced on the way the results came out.
“Why would I lie that Tsenesa is the father of my child? He is the man who impregnated me but I will not force him,” she said, asking for another DNA test. Mrs Chigodora however, told Nyikadzino that if she wanted another DNA test she was the one who was supposed to be paying since Tsenesa had already done his part.
“As far as I am concerned, the results that we received here are authentic and the blood is actually tested in South Africa. How then do you think the results were rigged?,” asked the magistrate
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