Amid the raging debate on implementation of the two-thirds gender rule, Nominated MP David Ole Sankok proposed a strange new requirement for women seeking nomination to parliament that left many puzzled.
In a Facebook video, Sankok stated that to ensure nominations were not handed out to undeserving women, all those seeking the spots be required to show their children and identify their fathers.
Describing it as his own 'integrity test', he went on to state that women with children from different fathers could not be nominated as they were of easy virtue.
Sankok ranted that unmarried women with children by different fathers lacked integrity and could therefore not be trusted to serve as lawmakers.
"If you are not married and you have several kids from different quarters, you are not a woman of integrity.
"All those who are unmarried and have children, will be required to parade them and their DNA taken for tests to determine if they are from the same father.
"If one is sired by a Luo, another one by a Maasai … Kalenjin … Indian … Mzungu, then you have not passed the integrity test," he stated in the video.
Speaking in Parliament during debate on the gender rule, Sankok had voiced his fear that 'slay queens' would flood the August house if the rule was implemented.
"If these gender top up slots will be for our daughters, sisters, wives and mothers, then I support it 100 percent.
"But if it's for the slay queens to slay their way into the National Assembly, to massage their way into the Senate or county assemblies then I do have some reservations," he maintained.
The Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2018 which seeks to ensure that at least one-third of lawmakers in the next house are women requires the support of at least 233 MPs to sail through.
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