Member of the Kenya Parliament have added a new twist to a wife’s urging her husband to bring home something for dinner. According to new legislation, a man can have as many wives as he desires. Samuel Chepkinga, chair of the Justice and Legal Affairs committee made clear to female members of Parliament that “under customary law, women or wives you have married do not need to be told when you come home with a second or third wive.” Male members of Parliament want female members and their own wives to clearly understand that from now on, it is wives galore and you accept it or, whatever. They also eliminated a clause in another bill which would allow a woman you had proposed marriage and then backed off to sue. It just is not fair argued the men of Parliament since it would have allowed a woman to extort money from the innocent male who goes around proposing marriage in order to bed a woman.
MP Duale, a Muslim, supported the ideas of his Christian fellow members, had some words of advice: “I want my Christian brothers to read the Old Testament.” Filled with men who have many wives. This male chauvinist episode came shortly after these same men made homosexuality to be a crime punishable by death.