Wonders will never cease. The latest utterances by Ruiru MP Esther Gathogo that wives should deny their spouses conjugal rights if the latter fail to accord political support to female candidate cannot go unchallenged.
According her, women should use sex as a weapon to coarse men to vote for female candidates in various positions in the 2017 polls.
The political tragedy in Kenya is that or legislators are the first to make laws and at the same time, time they are the first to break or bend them.
Article 38(3b) of the Constitution stipulates in no uncertain terms that every adult citizen has the right, without unreasonable restrictions, to vote by secret ballot in any election or referendum.
In the light of the foregoing, no Kenyan should be disenfranchised his/her universal suffrage under any circumstances whatsoever.
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Therefore, the institution of marriage, which is God-ordained, should not be used as political gimmicks by our politicians.
It is quite unfortunate that some of our politicians engage in politics of insincerity.
Leaders should lead by example by ensuring the Constitution is duly followed. Lack of issue-based politics has been our greatest undoing.
As the 2017 General Election draws near, it behooves our politicians to give precedence to issue-based politicians instead of political ruckus, platitudes and theatrics.
