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Want a Nyeri wife? get a helmet first, MP warns

City News

Nyeri MP Priscilla

If you are planning to marry a woman from Nyeri County, kindly acquire the following as a matter of urgency: a helmet and life-membership from Maendeleo ya Wanaume.

Don’t forget to have sufficient clout to call the media to a news conference. And that is advice from a ‘Nyerian,’ Priscilla Nyokabi (pictured above), the Nyeri County Women’s Rep.

Nyokabi says that these requirements arise from the ‘legendary’ reputation of Nyeri women as the breed that beats their husbands to a pulp.

The politician who represents the women of Nyeri in Parliament spoke while contributing to the debate on a Bill to protect the victims of domestic violence. She said many Nyeri women were finding it tough bagging a hubby given their ‘not-so-nonviolent’ reputation.

“Some of us are unmarried, not because we are bad women. We are good women. But there’s a rumour out there that if you want to marry a Nyeri woman, you first buy a helmet to protect yourself from being beaten, then you join Maendeleo ya Wanaume for protection...” said Nyokabi, adding that it was archaic to talk of gender violence in 2014.

“Had God created a woman first, He could have said, ‘this one can live alone.’ But because He created man first, He said, ‘this one cannot live alone,’” said Nyokabi as she alluded to independence of women. Millie Mabona (Mbita) took cue from Nyokabi and told male MPs to “love” their women. Like Nyokabi, Millie waxed Biblical: “The Bible says that women must submit to their husbands.”

But not all women in the august House took that sitting down.

Joyce Lay (Taita Taveta) asked Millie why she thought submission was key. “I see Joyce Lay asking, ‘how do we do that?’ It is very Biblical. You should submit,” said Millie.

But the Mbita MP had a rider: “If you men were able to die for us on the cross, we will submit... we will love you! If you loved us that much, we will be very wonderful women,” said Millie as she dared her colleagues.

Speaker Justin Muturi looked on, smiled, and when he picked the next person to speak, he just said: “Please take it beyond love!”

 

 

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