A witness yesterday stunned a Nairobi court when she disowned a man claiming to be her son, saying she had never met him before.

Fatuma Mohamed who hails from Burat, Isiolo county, told the court that she had met the accused, Abdihakim Said Jama, for the first time when he appeared in court on Monday.

Jama who claimed to be Fatuma’s son was charged last year with obtaining registration by false pretenses and being unlawfully present in Kenya.

Fatuma produced a list containing the names of her eight children and told the court that the accused was not one of them.

She narrated to the court how government officials visited her home in June last year and showed her some photos of a man while asking whether she knew him. “I did not recognize him, he is not my son,” Fatuma said.

Another witness, Abdi Aliow Issak, a businessman and a member of the vetting committee of Ngare Mara area location denied taking part in a meeting purported to have taken place in the area where vetting of applicants of national identity cards was held where the accused person claims to have been vetted and approved in 2011.

The witness told the court that he had also not signed the documents produced in court bearing the names of Abdi Alio, insisting that he always signs all official documents with his three full names, Abdi

Alio Issak and not two as in the document presented before the court.

Jama was charged that between March and June 2011 in Isiolo within Isiolo county, he gave false information to a person employed in the public in order to procure a Kenyan Identity.