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Attacks on men spark off debate

Kenya: A woman who says she is “from Central Kenya” is sure to be asked if she is from Nyeri. Reason?

Men in the county sitting at the foot Mt Kenya are “Nyerified”, while their women are “Nyerious”. The inclination to poke fun at men hailing from this county has moved from being henpecked to the level where “their performance contracts” in material beds continually attract some punishment - in most cases it involves the brutal removal of what other Kenyans now jokingly refer to as “transformers”.

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