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Billion-shilling fund for marginalised men an idea whose time has finally arrived

Male MPs want a fund worth several billions of shillings inaugurated for the sole purpose of uplifting men who live on the margins of society. They say this is to leverage menfolk, much the same way women and youth have benefited from specific funds targeting their ilk.

This, for all intents and purposes, is an off-shoot lobbies that have emerged in the past to promote boy-child issues, and more recently, violence against men. I want to fully associate with this campaign for a number of reasons.

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