THE SEX BOYCOTT:A REVOLUTION IN THE MAKING

The sex boycott as called by a caucus of women leaders called G10 is over. I have read and heard all kinds of reactions both positive and negative from both male and female members of the Kenyan society. These reactions have really made me discover how strategic and important the sex boycott was because the pronouncements by various people have made it so much highlighted in most if not all households, the media and in general areas of social interaction including churches, bars and conferences.. Am so surprised the way some individuals have been making unfounded arguments including claims that the sex boycott is bait for donor funding for some NGOs. In my own understanding, these organizations have always been funded for many years even when they had not called for the sex boycott. In my opinion, these critics are shallow minds who don’t happen to analyze matters from’ the bigger picture’ point of view. Others have insinuated that the women leaders are not married and that kind of crap thus trivializing the whole matter. I have no permission from Ann to write this but I know she is the wife to Mr. Leonard Njogu whom I know. Even those whom the critics accuse of not having husbands had never before publicly declared to you that they were on a sex boycott…but this isn’t my intention for I don’t want to respond to trivialities. This has made G10 to be pacesetter for reforms and it’s an opportunity for me and you too to encourage and even join them. This discussion is what has eventually provoked Kenyans in all households to ask themselves why the boycott was called. It was a protest against bad leadership and endless wrangles between the two forces of the coalition PNU and ODM under the supervision of their respective principals. According to me whoever came up with the idea had a very creative mind.thogh sex is such a sacred, secret and silent word, its one thing that people always talk and think about especially those who share intimacy. The one week boycott was a sure way of encompassing everyone since most of the sexually active individuals especially married couples are the middle age who have a duty and ability to bring change to the country. Truth be said, most of these people will have sex at several times a week. Thus seven days is long enough for a man to know that he is missing something important. It’s true that there are men in this country who don’t care about the state of our nation and the difficulties our country is going through because of bad leadership. They are beneficiaries of all comforts including enjoying all privileges in company of their spouses. I want to believe that by calling for sex boycott, the g10 were in solidarity with many other people, who by virtue of circumstances are not able to have such opportunities. It’s just like fasting in solidarity with the hungry. You can easily think of those internally displaced persons (IDPs) who do not have that comfort of enjoying conjugal rights with their spouses because of space and lack of privacy. Think of those people who are sexually incapacitated due to inability to afford medication. Think of those people who are too hungry in this country and have no energy to indulge in sexual pleasure. So if you didn’t have sex the whole of last week, then you can easily imagine what other couples with the aforementioned problems go through. It’s good enough for you to stand today and demand that every Kenyan man is in a position to enjoy life the way you do. As Kenyan men, we need to stand and demand for justice to all. This will maybe make us maybe look worthy before our women. It’s therefore a call all of us should heed and advance and stop looking at it as a sex issue parse but as an issue that culminates into us awaking ourselves and being able to address all evils and poverty of leadership in our midst. All these problems if well analyzed are directly linked to the wrangles in the coalition government. Am sure that once there is order in government, then all government activities will run well and progressively. So I believe the so called youth are the bedrock that can force real political orders in any state, the sex boycott is a direct call upon them to rise up and do something. I know in general circumstances, a man who doesn’t provide is harshly judged by the society, and so is the man who sees many things wrong happening in the country and he does nothing about it. He really deserves to be taken to task to do a duty of showing or taking part in telling leaders to behave lest he doesn’t deserve any privilege….And women having taken the to the forefront while men were sleeping need to be lauded, for that is a serious way of waking up the good for nothing men. Am quite sure that if men decided to get out and do what the women said then it will be easy for us to go to them and say….yes now I have played my role in the society. I have made my contribution….hey I deserve to be treated like a man. if we are men enough, let us take that challenge from women, don’t sit on the sidewalk and just criticize or be creative enough to come up with all kinds of ideas that can keep us enlightened and encouraged to feel and work towards implementing the required reforms in this country which can help us ensure good governance and corruption free society. It is the same creative minds that will rid us off bad leadership. I do encourage the G10 because am sure if Kenyans focused seriously on the significance of this boycott, it’s the same that will make Kenyan men rise up to defend this country and save her from political hyenas. AND since Kibaki and Raila have not yet found a common ground of working in the interest of Kenyans, I think now, we need another boycott. Its time for t reactionary critics to be creative enough and come up with an idea FWAMBA NC FWAMBA BOX 41046-00100 0736170218/0721779445 http://kenyayoungvotersalliance.blogspot.Com