Religious leader says no to vasectomy, terms it dangerous

A religious leader from Embu County has castigated the move by men to undergo vasectomy as a way of family planning terming it un-Godly.

Joseph Wega of the Transcontinental Christian Ministry Church said that men are not supposed to go for family planning, saying that it is a reserve for women.

Wega argued that the country was being re-colonized as this is a western culture that should not be accepted adding that it was misleading Kenyans on best ways for family planning.

He argued that as a church leader, he would not advocate for such methods as this was making men impotent as they will never sire again.

Wega called upon other church leaders to come out and condemn family planning for men as the country population was still low.

He said that the Bible also condemns such practice as the men were sinning against God by undergoing family planning, linking it to various disasters such as drought and terrorism that have hit the country.

The church leader, who was speaking in Embu town on Tuesday, November 22, said that while women were using family planning methods that are temporary, men should not be subject to permanent ones that will burden them for the rest of their lives.