Minnesota House Representative Huldah Momanyi Hiltsley has decried the neglect of the boy child compared to the attention given to girls.
Speaking at Boochi- Tendere Ward in Gucha Subcounty, this carefree attitude exhibited by adults to bringing up despondent children accumulates a lot of bitterness and anger in them that come to resurface in their married life, which begets Gender Based Violence as they take revenge on their innocent partners to compensate for the lost, suppressed humane emotions that their parents denied them in childhood.
“Let us instil a sense of responsibility in our children by showing them love and compassion to enable them to grow with virtues as they transform into adult men who are supposed to be family gate peace keepers instead of invaders,” she said.
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The lawmaker said that failing to teach people family values and provide them with quality education leads to broken families due to ignorance and a lack of exposure to the social and economic experiences of wider communities.
Emphasising that education is the cornerstone of all families’ success and continuity, she asked parents to provide guidance and counselling to their children in pursuing their dreams through education, contributing to a healthy society.
She asked the community to embrace modern farming methods to produce enough food to feed their families securely.
When asked to comment on endangered community languages like Suba and Ekegusii, which are said to be extinct in the coming forty years due to urbanisation unless efforts are made to preserve them, she was quick to respond.
“Adults who don’t embrace their indigenous languages and teach their children are the ones to blame. Look, here I went to the United States of America when I was only nine years old, but I am still fluent in my native language.”She said.
She praised the Kenyan Government for reintroducing the teaching of indigenous languages in the Curriculum and prayed for its success, as it will instil cultural values in posterity.
Ogembo Division ACC Julius Romo, the area Police Commander, along with all area chiefs and residents, received her.
She pledged to use her position to strengthen education, trade, health and cultural exchange programmes between the US and Kenya.
Julius Rono, who represented the area as County Commissioner, expresses his happiness and hopes it will strengthen the existing relationship between Minnesota and Kisii County.
By Enock Okong’o.
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