Ruto’s appointee Kung’u Muigai declares war on archaic traditional practices in Mt Kenya region
Kung'u Muigai, Uhuru's cousin declares war on archaic traditional practices in the Mt Kenya region days after being appointed by Ruto
Kung’u Muigai, Uhuru’s cousin declares war on archaic traditional practices in the Mt Kenya region days after being appointed by Ruto.
Following Kung’u Muigai’s recent appointment as chair of the Kenya Cultural Centre Council board by President William Ruto, Mr. Muigai vowed war on antiquated traditional practices in the Mt. Kenya region.
Kung’u Muigai, who is retired President Uhuru Kenyatta’s first cousin said the Mount Kenya region has several retrogressive cultural practices.
“I know that my job entails working countrywide. But charity begins at home. Before we preach yonder we must first do it in Jerusalem which is home,” Mr. Muigai, who is retired President Uhuru Kenyatta’s first cousin said.
“Every dawn we are faced with the great challenge of confronting practices packaged in a culture that enables gender discrimination, violence, indecency, and indoctrination of minors to harmful practices,” he said.
He said “Mt Kenya is home to some groupings of cultural purists who advance criminal practices for self-gain.
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As a result, he claimed, “we continue to subject women to antiquated restrictions, subject our children to detrimental customs, and make our males believe they dominate the world and are always right even when they are wrong.”
He issued a warning to traditionalists who support violence, drug use, and casual sex in the name of culture.
“There is a cultural practice that requires newly circumcised boys to have unprotected sex to cleanse the wounds. You need not even think about it, starting now, that thinking is criminal,” he said.
Kung’u Muigai also referred to the custom in which a woman who has purposefully shattered a cooking pot in order to cast a curse on her lineage is purified by engaging in unprotected intercourse in public in front of witnesses.
“We should not be associated with such cases of lunacy,” he said.
Mr. Muigai said, “we are now aware that this ritual that has all along been misinterpreted has reached a point of gross abuse and gained grave criminal dimensions”.
He said security officers have informed the council of elders that “brokers working in cahoots with commercial sex workers have hijacked the ritual and transformed it into a criminal enterprise with kickbacks as the motive”.
He said the plot involves the brokers taking the boys to the commercial sex dens, have them part with Sh1,000 to Sh2,000 (depending on family background), and the brokers receiving a kickback of Sh500 per service.
He accused some elders of manipulating historical facts regarding traditions so as to create an avenue to con children.
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