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Kenya's Maendeleo Ya Wanaume (Mawe) chairman Nderitu Njoka. PIC BY COURTESY/NATION

By:

Robert Amalemba

Posted:

May,11-2017 15:41:29

Just when you think he has run out of steam, Kenya's Maendeleo Ya Wanaume (Mawe) chairman Nderitu Njoka emerges with a damning report, all in the name of defending men.

In his latest dossier, 'State of the Nation Study on Violence against Men and Boys [VAMB]' released last week, Njoka appeals to the United Nations Security Council to move with speed and address the injustices perpetrated against the embattled boy child.

However, in the appeal, there is an interesting aspect where he wants the Egyptian Pharaoh and King Herod prosecuted at The Hague court in Netherlands posthumously over a Biblical saga he finds "atrocious and horrifyingly wicked", which should not go unpunished.

Through Mawe, the men's right champion wants the UN Security Council to revisit the infamous Biblical scandal of King Herod and Pharaoh boys massacre, where hundreds of boys below two years were drowned and slaughtered mercilessly following a political decree.

Njoka makes a passionate appeal to the United Nations to prefer murder charges on the two supposed miscreants for that Biblical crimes that targeted boys only.

"The UN should file a criminal case against the key suspects in The Hague and open prosecution charges against King Pharaoh and Herod posthumously in order for boys worldwide to feel a sense of justice and security on earth," reads the report.

All this is in reference to Exodus 1:22 which states: "Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: Every Hebrew boy that is born must be throw into the Nile, but let every girl live." A decree that Pharaoh issued to slow down the then rapidly growing population of Israelites, whom he feared would topple his administration.

King Herod, too, whom Njoka wants prosecuted and punished posthumously issued a similar order, which saw hundreds of boys killed in an almost similar fashion after his attempts to single out and kill the then two years old Jesus Christ failed.

"When Herod saw that he had been outwitted (in finding and killing Christ), he was filled with rage. Sending orders, that saw all boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old killed," states Mathew 2: 16, a biblical verse that also inspired Njoka and Mawe to seek institution of legal proceedings.

Mawe also demands an apology from the Catholic Pope Francis for the church's role in Pharaoh and Herod boys' massacre. He argues that boys need unreserved apology from the church because the institution was the political and spiritual pivot of society at the time and did nothing substantial to protect the boy child or make them at least feel justice had been done.

Other odd recommendations Mawe calls for in the report is for the Kenyan government to declare circumcision free of charge to all boys and ban wearing shorts in schools and let all boys put on trousers. "Shorts are colonial and disadvantageous to boys, particularly in primary since most don’t have inner wear thereby affecting their education and moral confidence."

In the report, Njoka also urges government to ban selective gender empowerment programs and improve on equal gender budget allocation henceforth.

Mawe also wants Women Enterprise Fund and Uwezo Fund scraped and or transform them to a Family Fund, so as to cater for the whole family as a unit with the husband, wife and children, sharing equal access and responsibility on loans and defaults.

"These funds discriminate against men above 35 years who have no income activities. Family Fund will help place such men at par with the empowered wives," Njoka argues in the report.

The Mawe report falls short of labeling the Kenyan Constitution feminist by saying: "The Constitution of Kenya is a Goddess (a female deity in polytheistic religions). It grossly discriminates the male gender at the expense of females and needs a major surgery by amending contentious gender clauses like Article 100, which brackets women as marginalised and assumes that all men are empowered by virtue of them being male, which is very misleading."

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