Man goes undercover over threats by chief

Man goes undercover over threats by chief

By OUR REPORTER

A forty seven year old man has gone underground alleging harassment from a local chief and administrative police over what he terms as family matters.

The angry man who talked to us before resorting to his next destination said that the chief and the police had no right to summon him over his family matters. He added that the incident was a ploy to extort money from him by a woman claiming to be the mother of his children and that it had happened on several occasions.

He said that he had been forced to live like a pauper and a criminal on the run by evading his matrimonial home to keep cover. “Let the children’s office and the courts solve the matter. I will not honor any summons from people who are less concerned” He agitated.

The man (name withheld) showed our reporter a letter dated 6^th of August this year that read in part: You are hereby summoned to appear before the under signed on 10/8/2010 at 9am failure by which you will be liable to arrest and prosecution ..”

According to the man, a resident of Nakuru Teachers estate, and a former Kenya Railways Corporation employee, the letter did not specify reasons for the summon and for the arrest or prosecution against him. He said that even before he had officially received the communication, the said chief started making threatening calls to him and that was the reason why he was taking cover.

This comes in the wake where the national Maendeleo ya wanaume movement has petitioned parliament to review laws that involve marriage and children. According to the organization, many men in the country suffer silently in the hands of women and that, women were purposely trapping men to father children so as to demand benefits from them unfairly.

The organization says that many men are suffering silently and loose their hard-earned financial and other resources to wayward women with no marriage commitment.

Our investigation revealed that many men in the country have fell victim to women who are abusing the laws concerning children to make ends meet. The investigations revealed further that some lawyers and officials from the children’s department and local office of the president officers, FIDA and relatives collude to victimize many men in the country.

These men are forced to provide for maintenance of the children alleged they had fathered failure of which are jailed. Most who are employed with a salary get almost over three quarters of their salary slashed that goes to the women and their accomplices.

Faced by desperation, most turn to alcoholism and broken families. Some have committed suicide while others turn to crime to sustain a low income that is caused by them being forced to pay for the maintenance of children.