‘DNA does not validate paternity in Igbo land’ – Stan Alieke

Popular Nigerian lawyer, Stan Alieke, has stated that DNA does not validate paternity in Igbo land.

He disclosed this via a post on his Instagram story on Monday.

Stan stated that what validates the paternity of a child in the Igbo land, is the bride price payed by the father.

According to him, if a man is yet to pay the bride price of a woman, any child that comes from that union is presumed to be fatherless.

He stated that the man will not be allowed to take the child until he has paid the bride price of the woman even if she is dead.

He wrote, “Under the Igbo customary law, payment of bride price is what validates paternity and not even DNA.

This means that if your father is yet to pay the bride price on your mother, you will be presumed to be fatherless.

Also, you as a father of the child will not be allowed to take the child until you have paid the bride price on the mum even if the mum is dead.

A child that the father has not paid the mother’s bride price will have to take the surname of the mother.”