Women on Wednesday introduced a new weapon in the political battle field: sex. They want their mass action to take place in the privacy of thousands of bedrooms across the country to effect changes in public leadership.

And so on Wednesday, the women’s organisations called for a seven-day sex boycott to pressurise President Kibaki and the Prime Minister Raila Odinga into taking decisive steps to end coalition wrangles. The two feuding political kingpins, they say, should bear the brunt of the sex strike; so they asked their wives — First Lady Lucy Kibaki and Mrs Ida Odinga — to join them by denying them their conjugal rights.

Under the banner of Gender 10, the group of 10 civil societies said they were frustrated by the twists and turns of the coalition government and the lack of leadership portrayed by the two principals. “The boycott is to protest against the poor leadership and to demand that the two take charge of the country,” said Ms Carole Ageng’o, director of Tomorrows Child Initiative.

Present at the media briefing were women leaders from Federation of Women Lawyers (Fida), Maendeleo ya Wanawake, Centre of Rights and Education Awareness (CREAW), among other civil groups.

During the seven days, lobby groups will draw up a performance contract for the President and Prime Minister to sign, defining the kind of leadership they would want. “If they fail to sign, it would be a confirmation of lack of goodwill and commitment,” said Ms Ann Njogu of CREAW, who also said more radical actions were in the pipeline.

Lucy and Ida

Asked whether the wives of the two principals would support their call, Ms Njogu said both Mrs Kibaki and Mrs Odinga were gender-sensitive leaders. “We expect them to take part since they are patrons in our organisations,” she said.

Defending the boycott Ms Patricia Nyaundi, the director of Fida, said: “Extra-ordinary situations call for extraordinary measures.” Terming it a “fast” Ms Nyaundi said: “Let every family take time to talk about the country’s leadership and what they want from the government.”

She said prostitutes would also join them, adding that through various organisations, the women would be given financial help for the period. “We are in an agreement with them,” said Ms Nyaundi. “We have arranged with various organisations how to supplement their budgets for the period.”

With no way of enforcing it, the women only called on support from members of their organisations and the public affirming that they would lead by example. She said: “We are having support from almost all parts of the country. We have received positive response from more than 70 branches.”

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Are they crazy?
Why the wrong assumption that men want sex and women provide it. I always thought it is mutual!

Come on, these guys need to just send the body guard to negotiate at K street and Hey presto!

Politics is not a part of the marriage contract. Any man denied conjugal rights has a right to sue.

Without trivializing the issue, it would be a terrible blow to these women's efforts if the majority of the women promoting the move are not married. Just a thought.

The idea of compensating prostitutes is a non starter. Prostitutes are there for business. their only motivation is money, not political debates or moral issues. They are less likely to identify with these honorable women's cause. In any case it is the same women who during the day view prostitutes as sisters of satan who lure their husbands to vice.

And by the way, what about the Kenyan men who go to male prostitutes? Yestreday's statistics in the Daily Nation about 487 male prostitutes in Kisumu alone was illuminating.

The issues these women are advancing are serious and very important. The should come up with more realistic strategies or else no one will take them seriously.

Some women would never do things like this.
Funny enoung I found my woman here on kikuyu.com (see screen picture) and she would never ever refuse here conjugal obilgations.
I think to many Kenyan women have lost there senses and they no longer know what a good woman should be like.
Let the fight for conjugal rights and obilgations go on and leave politics out of the bedroom!

Haiyaaa.. two for me please!

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