Kenyan Women Call off Sex Boycott
By Florence Machio 

Nairobi, Kenya- Kenyan women called off a seven-day sex boycott urging the government to renegotiate the national accord that was signed in March 2008 when the East African country was going through post-election violence. 

The contested election led to blood shed and a commission was set up to look into the post election violence. One of the things that brought peace to the country was a national accord that was facilitated by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, which sort among other things to address the issues that caused the violence in the first place.

The women while calling off the boycott also called on the two principals, President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga to address hunger and poverty which they felt were more pressing needs than the constitution. 

Faith Kasiva of Gem said there is no need to focus on the constitution when the country was so divided. 

Nderitu Njoka the chairman of Maendeleo Ya Wanaume which was formed to address men’s rights said Kenyan women should have called for a hunger strike as opposed to a sex boycott. He termed the boycott a flop and said that it was a distress to men. 

The boycott that ended in Nairobi at 3 p.m. last Wednesday was termed a success by women civil society organizations under the group G10. A minister for energy in the coalition government Kiraitu Murungi, who attended the women’s press conference to end the boycott, said the government had heard and “hoped that the women will not need to do that again” 

The controversial sex boycott, saw two factions of women’s groups emerging with some supporting and others not. Couples who declared that they were boycotting also came out publicly to support the campaign. Most men on the other hand said the boycott was against African traditions. 

The campaign hit headlines in Kenyan dailies and kept people talking for the seven days that it lasted. The two principals met more than twice during the boycott, which came at a time when parliament was divided in the middle about who between the vice president and the prime minister should be leader of government business.

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