Bonchari Nyumba Kumi group will stand firm to defend orphaned children who are abused after the demise of their parents.
Area Chairman Elijah Nyamweya said it is saddening to see children miss school because of a lack of support from neighbours after losing their parents.
“African culture dictates that a child is cared for by the community and brought up according to the society’s ethics,” he said.
The chairman castigated wife inheritance in the area, saying that it is a practice that has been bypassed with time, adding that it heaps unnecessary social and economic burdens to the widowed.
He asked those who inherit wives after the death of their husbands to ensure that they provide food, clothes and fathers’ counsel to the surrogate children instead of siring and leaving them in the hands of their mothers who struggle to bring them up.
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The chairman informed us that his officers would work with the chief’s officer to compile a list of wife inheritors who do not care for the children they sired with widowed mothers to be held responsible for their upkeep.
He cautioned wife inheritors about common sexual transmitters like HIV Aids that may sweep the whole community unless it is avoided.
He congratulated the Kisii County Government for constructing enough classrooms and employing enough ECDE teachers. Still, he feared that these efforts might go to waste unless parents send their children who have attained school age to attend learning classes.
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