Residents from Mosocho Division in Kitututu Chache South Sub-County have been warned against engaging in the retrogressive culture of wife inheritance to avoid rampant spread of HIV infections.
Mosocho Division Assistant County Commissioner, Peter Kibata has challenged local men to go slow on the culture, which he regretted that has contributed to new HIV infections among area residents.
Speaking on Saturday at St.Patrick's Secondary School Mosocho during the School's prize giving ceremony, Kibata lamented that men from the local communities ignored HIV-related deaths and proceeded to inherit wives of the deceased assuming that they died of other causes like bewitching.
“Why would someone who is aware that the deceased husband died from HIV-related ailment go ahead to inherit his wife without first knowing the widow's HIV status,” posed Kibata.
He encouraged local community members; especially widows, to come out on the causes of their husbands’' deaths, instead of engaging in irresponsible sexual behaviours which threatened lives of innocent housewives whose husbands inherited wives whose husbands died from the HIV scourge.