Health minister Charity Ngilu said she would table the issue of homosexuality among Coastal youths before the Cabinet
Ngilu termed the situation serious, adding that the matter must be handled at the Cabinet level.
Speaking in Mombasa during a leaders meeting, Ngilu said she was shocked by revelations that homosexuality among teenagers was rampant in Coastal towns.
“I did not know that homosexuality and sodomy were rampant among our youths in the Coast. This is a very sad thing. I will table the matter before the Cabinet so that we can find ways of ending this shameful menace,” she said.
“What does the future hold for our children if some of them indulge in homosexuality and sodomy?” she asked.
She said homosexuality was illegal in Kenya.
“We cannot allow sex between man and man. Men should have sexual relationships with women only,” she said.
She urged the provincial administration to crack down on tycoons who, she said, lured youths into homosexuality. Coast General Hospital chief administrator, Dr Khadija Shikelly, said schoolgirls engaged in anal sex to avoid getting pregnant.
“There is need for parents to educate their children on the dangers of this vice,” she said.
National Heritage minister, Suleiman Shakombo, said some girls engaged in the vice to preserve their virginity.
“This is due to some traditions that teach girls that they must be virgins when they get married,” he said.
Elsewhere, Reproductive Health organisation’s deputy director, Dr Josephine Kibaru, has decried the rise in cases of HIV/Aids among youths.
Kibaru said studies by the Health ministry had shown that children aged between 14 and 15 were sexually active. She made the remarks at the Coast Provincial Commissioner’s office during a meeting, which focused on adolescents.
bullshit. homosexuality existed in Kenya, even though most of our languages had no word of it.
OMG I CANT BELIVE THIS. thats funny because wen i read this title i thoght it was vile and especially in kenya- unheard of! lol but in true ecssense im live in the uk and for the sake of political correctness and the culture i share here may i argue aginst this article- how dare she condem this lifestle with such words as sodomy should it matter what sexuality somebody is as long as it dosent hurt anyone else. she also says “it is a sad thing this vice” im sorry but that is totaly unacceptable hu is she 2 judge how another person should live their life. as 4 hiv people in a hetrosexual relationships also contract these disease if for anythging we should blame those cheating fathers hu r out sleeping with prostitutes on so called “bussiness trips”! we cannot deny african values are being influenced by the west and our youth are finally given the freedom to express themselves as never before. and there is no way any law, organization or power is going 2 stop that. the only shameful thing about this story is the homophobics writing it.
Am a homosexual&quite proud!
Am wondering when the minister for Health says that police should deal with tycoons , is it only tycoons who influence homosexuality?
It is high time now we stop condemning the behavior instead to bring these people closer so that they can access health service especially in this era of HIV. If we continue condemning them, the more they are going to stay in their shells thus die because of our ”homosexuality unfriendly services and attitude”. What Kenyans should know is that this person you are condemning might be your brother, sister, son , daughter or even your wife or husband so we should think of how we can support them.
Remember you cant make someone to change by condemning but by appreciating them and showing the the way.
I wasn’t surprised to read that jaundiced views of madam minister. She’s from a generaliton that have failed us and they want to divert our anger by pointing all ills we have on homosexuality. There’s a wind of change here on motherland and it won’t be ignored. Sexuality is part of our system of expression. Madam minister develop more moral skin because you haven’t seen anything yet. YOU JUST HEAR!
Yes, the minister show her lack of discernment of the action, and fails to understand that some men prefer men to women. She wants to impose her view of normality on people who have differing preferences to hers. She holds authoritarian view and her views were not considered applicable to people with differing preferences to her own, last century. She is out of date and her views are not relevant to modern times. She discriminates on the basis of sexual preferences an unacceptable view in the international world.
i think its kinda funny that ngilu has the time to condemn homosexuals (which by the way is none of her business) while we have cholera outbreaks due to the lack of clean water, we have floods due to poor planning for the rains, as if we did not know they were coming and next dry season, guess what, we will be in drought because we have an incomptent water minister who instead of ensuring that this water that God is abundantly providing after our long prayers is saved, she is condemning people for their personal choices and is advocating for the persecution of kenyan citizens in lieu of oppressing their God given rights. God does not give one the power to judge and to condemn. God will judge each one of us by our own actions, therefore, leave people to act as they want to. Honestly, it’s none of your bloody business!!