Kisii: llicit brew dens swallow men as women demand for conjugal rights

Some women from Bobaracho in Kisii County have raised concern over illicit alcohol in their neighbourhoods which they say has negatively affected their families.

Already some marriages have collapsed owing to the effects of alcohol on men, the women who spoke to AVDelta News on Sunday observed. 

They said the illicit brews are to blame for the men's low potency in their bedrooms.

"The situation is getting dire hence we ask our security agencies to do something to bring an end to this madness," Ms Silvia Kerubo,31, told journalists on Sunday.

The wanton proliferation of cheap liquor around the township and in the neighbouring villages was to blame, she said.

The troubled women said more dens were being set up at Kegati and were swallowing up their men at a fast rate.

"Their hoes have become blunt… they can't dig… the farms are gathering weeds and bushes on the edges," Ms Gladys Kemunto,28, said figuratively.

Ms Kemunto, a mother of two, spoke of her ‘troubled’ young marriage which she alleged that it can easily crumble.

She said she prays frequently so that her husband can leave friends who can influence him into cheap liquor.

"It is not good for a married woman to act as both mum and dad for the children when their father is spending long time at the dens," Ms Kemunto lamented.

Ms Joy Nyabuto narrated a painful story of a short marriage punctuated by pain and loneliness due to the effects of alcohol on her former husband.

Their union took about three(3) years before she called it quits.

"At 25 I was still young to bear it any more with a drunkard. I woke up one day and asked him to decide if it was me or alcohol. He chose the latter and I moved out," Ms Nyabuto told AVDelta News.

Ms Nyabuto has since remarried.

"I look back and count as dung the years I squandered in a sexless marriage," she stated.

She said some women were now preying on young teenage boys to quench their thirst for sex, a trend she said is bad for society.

“This is not good, what will become of our children when they become of age?” she posed.