By Reuben Olita
in Nairobi

KENYAN men moved a notch higher yesterday with the announcement that they had started a 30-day sex boycott to protest against abuse of their rights by women.

Maendeleo ya Wanaume (Men’s Organisation) Bungoma branch chairperson in Western Kenya, Eric Wambasi, said he had already secured signatures of over 250 members who were due to start the exercise last night.

He said more people are expected to endorse the countrywide boycott.

Wambasi said the move was in protest against the recent action by the G-10 women’s movement that forced women to go on a one-week sex boycott owing to the slow pace of reforms by the coalition government and rampant corruption in the country.

Last month, thousands of Kenyan women including Ida Odinga, wife of prime minister Raila Odinga, called for the week-long sex boycott.