Sex-starved Kenyan sues over boycott

In what was seen as women power in Kenya, 10 civil society groups under the Gender 10 banner issued a sex boycott aimed at Kenya’s president Mwai Kibaki and Prime minister Raila Odinga to end squabbles in the coalition government.

The women said they could no longer sit back and watch the nation being torn apart by bickering and bad leadership by the coalition partners.

A man has now gone to court seeking compensation for being denied sex for the past week.

Mr James Kimondo says he was denied his conjugal rights by his wife, Teressia Wanjiku following the sex boycott.

I was a happily married man enjoying all the benefits of marriage, including my conjugal rights, until the rights group called for a national sex boycott. As a result, I was denied sex,” he said in his suit papers.

He is suing four women activists and wants them to compensate him for general damages he suffered.

During the sex boycott, Mr Kimondo said, he lost sleep and could not concentrate at work.

He said he also suffered backache and was always in a foul mood.

Mr Kimondo said he was forced to sue after his plea for compensation was ignored. “Despite notice of intention to sue, the four have refused to compansate,” he said.