In an interview on Day Break on Wednesday, Nominated MP David Ole Sankok was forced to issue a public apology over his remarks on single mothers.
Appearing on a panel hosted by Citizen TV's Yvonne Okwara, Sankok was asked to come clean on the statement he made regarding the ongoing debate on Two-thirds Gender Bill.
"If I made any statement that may have rumbled single mothers whom I respect so much, I sincerely apologise," Sankok stated.
He went ahead to claim that he had only meant to safeguard the two-third representation that saw the reduction of seats for people with disabilities.
Nominated MP David Ole Sankok apologises over disparaging remarks on women and people living with disability pic.twitter.com/9GaAXhpRm3
"It was not a statement that was meant to demean any category of person in the country," Sankok continued.
He also admitted that the had gone a little off-mark in the remarks he had made that equated single mothers to prostitutes.
During a previous press conference, he had claimed that single mothers were women who bore children with different husbands and, therefore, lacked integrity.
"All those who will be nominated for gender top up and they are not married, must parade their children, DNA taken and then we see if they are from one man, they will have passed the integrity test," he noted.
He went ahead to claim that if the women were found to have sired children with men from different tribes or nationalities, they would have failed the integrity test and thus deserved to be disqualified.
The Nominated MP's comments did not sit well with Kenya who took to social media to rebuke him.
Many were irked by the level of carelessness and insensitivity portrayed by the leader.
Others even asked the Jubilee Party to revoke his nomination to parliament pointing out that he was not qualified to represent Kenyans.
