Two female traders led a group of women to protest against what they called lazy men in Athi River town, within Mavako Sub county yesterday.
Nelly Nyawita and Veronica Adhiambo who both run food kiosks in Embakasi and Makadara of the town respectively, yesterday mobilised hundreds of women who stormed a "draft playing joint" of men in the town.
"Get out of this place for something constructive to do to enable you support yourselves and equally fend for your families," shouted Nyawita.
Nyawita said she had separated from her own husband whom he lived with for six years and sired with three children because he was lazy and never wanted to work.
The women said most of the men who wasted time playing draft for few coins as little as shs. 20 a game had neither investments nor engagements to supoprt their families.
Most of the women whose husbands were smoked from the joint accussed the men of neglecting and being irresponsible to their families.
They said their husbands had become burden to them instead as they engaged to too much alcohol among other drugs and occasionally buttered them when drunk demanding for food their never provided their families with.
The women called on the Machakos Counter Government through Governor Alfred Mutua to impose a barn to such places where lazy men wasted their productive time and starn legal penalties be imposed to calprits.