Marital rape is a subject that most Kenyan men do not take seriously at all. Yet it is a national crisis that will have to be addressed soon even as it continues to spin out of control.
One unprecedented case filed by a Kenyan woman recently, seems to illustrate the gravity of the situation. The woman who is a seller of designer clothes has asked a Kenyan court to restrain her husband of 24 years from coming anywhere near her and should only appear to have sex with her when it is consensual. The woman has had three children with the serial rapist since their marriage at the AG's chambers in 1983.
The woman goes on to say the latest rape occurred only last week when her husband burst into the house on a Friday after the children had gone to school.
In this particular case the woman says that the husband currently lives with another woman and has a relationship with a third.
One of the big emerging issues these days is the possibility of catching HIV-AIDS from a husband who is not faithful and has several other sexual partners while still insisting on continuing to have sex with their wives. The right of the wife to refuse sex on the ground of suspecting one's husband of philandering is more than a good enough reason. One must bear in mind the fact that especially where children are involved, the wife (who is usually the more responsible person in many Kenyan homes) has a right to protect herself if for nothing else, for the sake of her children.
But even where both partners behave responsibly, rape can and does take place frequently in Kenyan bedrooms. Many Kenyans do not believe that rape can take place on a marriage bed and see sex as the right of the husband to be meekly delivered whenever it is demanded. The same Kenyan men are quick to criticize the Kibaki government for any human rights violations taking place in the country when there is absolutely no regard for the dignity and feelings of the woman in their own homes who is the mother of their children.
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Monday, January 29, 2007
Kenyan Politics And The Biggest Lie And Betrayal By Candidate Kibaki
There is no doubt that Kenyan politics has changed a lot since 2002 and continues to change. However one thing that cannot be changed are the historical facts and most notably the historical facts behind the successful candidature of one Mwai Kibaki. The big question Kenyan voters will have to ask themselves in the forthcoming general elections is of they can trust their country once again to somebody who short-changed and betrayed his colleagues.
Kenyans who have a memory worth of repute will remember that one of the issues that the initial Kibaki-Kijana Wamalwa-Ngilu group kept on talking about was that the country badly needed one-term presidents to help fight tribalism and other terrible consequences from years of Moi mis-rule. The late Kijana Wamalwa once said in a speech that was widely publicized on TV shortly after his death in a London hospital, that Kibaki would go for one term, leave it to Wamlawa who would leave the presidency for yet another Kenyan.
Today, not only has the Kibaki camp conveniently chosen to forget those noble declarations made which were for the good of the Kenyan people, but anybody who dares bring them to remembrance is labeled a liar. But sincerely who is the liar? The dead Wamalwa Kijana who so eloquently and clearly verbalized the agreement the three=then opposition king pins made?
Some analysts don't even blame Kibaki. Instead the point to the fact that something is bound to happen to any mortal who rises to become president of Kenya that will suddenly cause them to have a serious bout of amnesia over anything they said or promised during their campaign trail. The office of President of Kenya is so powerful that it will not fail to go into any good person's head and turn them from a popular democrat to an evil autocrat in short order.
Other major promises of the Kibaki campaign team were a new constitution within 100 days, zero tolerance to corruption and 500,000 new jobs created annually. Alas today the Kibaki team chooses to ignore and forget "all that mumbo jumbo" and instead concentrates on what they believe are their achievements as they prepare to go all out for the re-election of candidate Mwai Kibaki.
Is this the curse of Kenyan politics, that candidates will forever lie to the Kenyan electorate, telling us one thing and then not bothering to remember, let alone attempting to do what they promised, once they are safely inside the State House compound? Will Kenyan politics continue to be dominated by the ruling class who have no time for the ordinary mwananchi and their every day problems (mostly created by the same politicians)?
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Kenyans who have a memory worth of repute will remember that one of the issues that the initial Kibaki-Kijana Wamalwa-Ngilu group kept on talking about was that the country badly needed one-term presidents to help fight tribalism and other terrible consequences from years of Moi mis-rule. The late Kijana Wamalwa once said in a speech that was widely publicized on TV shortly after his death in a London hospital, that Kibaki would go for one term, leave it to Wamlawa who would leave the presidency for yet another Kenyan.
Today, not only has the Kibaki camp conveniently chosen to forget those noble declarations made which were for the good of the Kenyan people, but anybody who dares bring them to remembrance is labeled a liar. But sincerely who is the liar? The dead Wamalwa Kijana who so eloquently and clearly verbalized the agreement the three=then opposition king pins made?
Some analysts don't even blame Kibaki. Instead the point to the fact that something is bound to happen to any mortal who rises to become president of Kenya that will suddenly cause them to have a serious bout of amnesia over anything they said or promised during their campaign trail. The office of President of Kenya is so powerful that it will not fail to go into any good person's head and turn them from a popular democrat to an evil autocrat in short order.
Other major promises of the Kibaki campaign team were a new constitution within 100 days, zero tolerance to corruption and 500,000 new jobs created annually. Alas today the Kibaki team chooses to ignore and forget "all that mumbo jumbo" and instead concentrates on what they believe are their achievements as they prepare to go all out for the re-election of candidate Mwai Kibaki.
Is this the curse of Kenyan politics, that candidates will forever lie to the Kenyan electorate, telling us one thing and then not bothering to remember, let alone attempting to do what they promised, once they are safely inside the State House compound? Will Kenyan politics continue to be dominated by the ruling class who have no time for the ordinary mwananchi and their every day problems (mostly created by the same politicians)?
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