A Limuru based cleric has warned politicians against inciting married couple to deny their partners conjugal rights if they fail to register as voters in the ongoing exercise.
According to Paul Sitati, a pastor with the Kenya Pentecostal Apostles of God (KAG) Church in Limuru, politicians are going too far by asking their supporters to deny their partners conjugal rights if they don’t have a voter’s card.
He says that politicians should keep politics out people’s marriages.
“It is ridiculous and unbiblical for politicians to ask married couples to deny each other conjugal rights in the name of voter registration,” he said.
“We have never heard anywhere in the Bible where women or men were denied conjugal rights for not taking part in political activities,” he said during the interview on Wednesday.
The cleric warns that marriages are likely to break if politicians continue with their campaigns of asking couples to deny each other sex if they are not registered as voters.
The move by politicians to use sex as a campaign tool to have Kenyans register as elicited mixed reactions among Kenyans.
While some are supporting the move others say that it is not proper and could lead to separations among married couples.
“Kenyans should not be forced to do some things all in the name of registering as voters,” said Sheila Kimani, a resident in Limuru.
A section of politicians has been urging their supporters to deny their partners sex if they don’t have a voters card.
Mombasa County Woman Representative Mishi Mboko is one such politician who wants women to deny their men sex if they have not registered as voters and vice versa.