In case you missed it, President Uhuru Kenyatta recently ordered county commissioners to carry out a nationwide crackdown on private clinics offering emergency contraceptives to underage girls. It could end up having an effect opposite to what was intended: it could punish girls and protect rapists instead. If Mr Kenyatta really wants to help underage girls targeted by sex pests, he should order the police to arrest rapists in the towns where numbers of teenage pregnancies have gone up. More understanding and thought should go towards figuring out exactly why underage girls are getting contraceptives from these clinics. No, instead they grow up thinking that rape is the fault of whatever garment of clothing a young innocent girl was wearing.

Source: Daily Nation August 05, 2020 11:47 UTC