Nakuru Woman Rep. wants Kenyan fathers to step up

Nakuru Woman Representative Liza Chelule has challenged Kenyan fathers to be role models to their sons and empower them economically as one of the ways to strengthen future fathers.

The legislator was speaking in Nakuru on Sunday while issuing a Ksh.6 million grant to more than 60 women and youth groups in the county.

According to Chelule, young men have been left to choose their future and chart their own course without much guidance, hence they get associated with vices such as drug and substance abuse, gambling, sexual abuse and dropping out of school.

She further lauded the government efforts to crack down on gambling machines saying a lot of young men had resorted to betting, hoping for financial luck.

The Woman Representative urged fathers to play their God-given roles and help mould their sons and put them back on the limelight of the society.

She also appealed to the women not to discriminate against the boy child but, instead, assist them where necessary as “both genders are fundamental to the success of any society.”

“The gap between the boys and the girls is becoming bigger because the girl is progressing…and I want to congratulate them for that. But let us not look at the girls alone,” she added.

Chelule noted that boys need counseling and guidance through their passage to manhood and that conversations of how to support boys should start from the family level.

“It is the responsibility of a father to look at the affairs of the son. You have abandoned this role, go back to sons, we need to mentor them,” she said.