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Women MPs won’t make us peaceful or honest, just nicer
Posted Saturday, September 20 2008 at 15:56
Rwanda demonstrated how differently men and women approach problems. In 1996, two years after the genocide ended, I went on an assignment that took me to every corner of Rwanda. The country was still hurting, and there was a lot of anger about.
We went to a remote district prison on a hill where hundreds of suspected genocide perpetrators, almost all of them men, were being held. It was visitation day. Thousands of women gathered, carrying food and medicines for their husbands, sons, and brothers.
If the majority of the prisoners had been women, there would have been few men around. They would have been busy with their new wives in the villages.
Charles Onyango-Obbo is Nation Media Group’s managing editor for convergence and new products. E-mail: cobbo@nation.co.ke
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I hope you practice what you say. One could easily see that you are trying to sound 'nice'. I wonder if you haven't heard of women who are just as corrupt as men. Hint, just visit Kenya and drive carelessly near female traffic officers. Oh, and make sure you have enough 'chai' to dish around.
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