A comment by high court Justice James Wakiaga on Tuesday, October 30 as he made a ruling on bail application for murder suspects Joseph Irungu and Jacque Maribe has caused a buzz online.
During his ruling, Wakiaga said Irungu alias Jowie is a woman-eater.
This, Wakiaga said, was out of the picture painted by the prosecution as they profile Irungu during investigations in the callous murder of 28-year-old Monica Kimani in Kilimani, Nairobi.
"The picture that emerges from the prosecution's evidence as set out herein above, and that the bail report of the accused, is that he is a male version of slay queen. Which for lack of better terminology, I will call a woman-eater," Justice Wakiaga said.
Jowie, who melts the hearts of many girls with his hunk looks, won many secret admirers when he publicly proposed to Jacque Maribe.
One female netizen captioned Maribe’s proposal photo:
“I can share that man with Maribe.”However, the prosecution seems to have labeled Jowie as a seducer who lived off a woman.
"He was living in the house of the second accused, driving the second accused's car with no known source of income since 2017 when he provided security for some Jubilee politicians," Justice Wakiaga said.
His remarks left netizens asking whether slay queens are also ‘man-eaters’ if a male version of a slay queen is a ‘woman-eater’.
Slay queen is a slang for women who depend purely on men for upkeep while only offering sexual pleasures.
In African settings, men are supposed to be the head of a home.
Provide for the family and own a home. In the Kikuyu culture, where Jowie is born, men living off women are labeled as ‘kept men’ and are not allowed to speak before other men.
They are not considered to be ‘men enough’.
If any man is known to be a ‘kept’ one, he is considered as an embarrassment to the council of men and can often be summoned for counseling or reprimand depending on why he is living off a woman.
At times, they are considered a bad omen to other men (thahu or mugiro).