Kenyans from Central Kenya have been encouraged to practice polygamy.
The National Committee for Implementation of Citizen Participation in Security (CPS) was the best way to increase the population that was slowly dwindling.
Committee Chairman Joseph Kaguthi noted that other communities in the country were being encouraged to have polygamous marriages noting that their counterparts in Central Kenya should follow suit.
He said that the number of Kenyans who have opted to stay single or have one child in the region is shocking.
Speaking to the press during a meeting on community policing that brought together elders, clergy and youth leaders from six counties at Kenya Wildlife Training Institute in Naivasha, Kaguthi told off the clergy opposed to such unions adding that polygamy was practiced way before saying it was enshrined even in the Bible.
“This movement being led by married women in the central Kenya that polygamous is illegal should stop if we have to increase on our population," he said as quoted by KBC.
“The President of Kenya is a product of a polygamous family, I come from that set of a union while the President of the US is himself polygamous and there is nothing wrong in it being re-introduced in Central Kenya just as is the case with other areas,” he added.
He termed the family unit in the country today as one facing serious attacks owing to regular separation saying much needed to be done in the society.