Former Makadara Member of Parliament Benson Mutura has lashed out at the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party for allegedly being discriminative against women.
This comes amid the party's ongoing primaries for the vacant Kibra parliamentary seat, where not even a single woman is battling for the party ticket.
According to Mutura, the party has also made its elections too masculine and violent to an extent that its scaring women away, hence the male-dominated primaries.
""This is a party left for men to face-off, even Nyongo (former Secretary General Anyang Nyongo) said it during the Men in Black chaos. Otherwise, they should tell us why there are no women (Hii ni chama ya wanaume kuonana, hata Nyongo mwenyewe alisema kabla ya zile vita za men in black. Ama watuambie mbona hakuna wamama)," he said on Radio Jambo's Mazungumzo Waziwazi, Saturday morning.
However, in a quick rejoinder, incumbent Makadara MP and ODM Nairobi County Chair George Aladwa said that it's not the fault of the party that all the 10 hopefuls are male.
Aladwa, also a panelist, noted that ODM made it open for all interested persons to tender their interest, stating that a woman was among the initial 24 batch of hopefuls.
He said that similarly, Mutura's Jubilee Party did not front a woman, and the party members have no moral authority to lecture ODM on matters of gender balance.
"They should stop inciting women agaisnt us, where is a woman in their own list? (Waache kutugonganisha na wamama. Kwa hiyo list yao wenyewe wapi mama?)" he posed.