Kimando wa Kagwe Kiambu Sub-County chairman Kiama Kia Ma speaking during the graduation of over 100 initiates to manhood in Kiambu
By Felix Njenga
The Kikuyu community cultural outfit ‘Kiama Kia Ma’ has called upon the government to ban diapers as it is ruining children’s reproductive system.
Kimando wa Kagwe Kiambu subcounty chairman Kiama Kia Ma while speaking in Hillcrest Academy School in Kanunga village where over 100 initiates graduated into manhood said that during the circumcision process they were shocked to see that the reproductive organs of most of the boys had shrunk.
“It is not only one boy but we witnessed many had small manhood and through our medical specialists it was noted that the boys wore diapers for far too long where the heat may have caused the penis to shrink,” kimando said.
He added that most parents do not change their children’s diapers, hence the child staying with a soiled and heavy diapers for long, which is causing them harm.
“The diaper can hold upto 2 litres of water and if a child goes for a short call or long call and stays with it for long without being changed, it is harming them,” he said.
He said that the doctors who were circumcising had difficulty in conducting the process due to the small manhood of the boys.
“All boys were circumcised to manhood and have healed although some it looks like a big wound,” he said.
Mery Wangari, a parent, supported the call by the elders saying that the diapers are harming the children and parents should revert to nappies.
“You will find that the child has slept with a diaper during the night and in the morning they are not changed and stays with the same diaper during the day before the mother changes the child the diaper,” wangari said.
She said that this is happening with the young mothers because of lack of money to buy more diapers and others due to laziness.
“You will find that some young mothers are lazy and are interested in changing their children’s diapers. Others are coping with the situation of lack of money to buy many diapers. This has had a toll on the children as it is ruining their genitals,” she said.
She called on the government to consider banning diapers or find alternatives so that they can prevent harm to children.
“The diapers are being littered all over, they should be banned or something better to be introduced,” she said.
The elders called on the government to consider doing away with the diapers just like the polythene bags.
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