Men’s Conference chair Stephen Letoo backs Eric Omondi’s push for low-cost living
Stephen Letoo, the country’s men’s affairs chair, has lauded comedian Eric Omondi’s drive to champion low-cost living.
The media personality clarified that Omondi was championing a good cause considering several households were struggling to ends meet.
“What those men did out there, it is within the confines of the Constitution. The way they did, it is up to them. Whether they displayed their body or not,” Letoo told Nairobi News.
“Everybody wants the cost of living to go down. The President has reacted to them, he wants time since everything is on the doors of the government, the message is out,” said Letoo.
Letoo has urged Kenyans to continue championing for the low cost of basic commodities.
“Even if the price of unga retails at Sh100, we will want it to be lowered further to Sh50. At Sh50, we will call for Sh40. There is no measure for low cost of living and therefore what we need is a sustainable cost of living,” Letoo explained.
Letoo was unanimously elected as country’s men’s affairs chair on February 14, 2023.
He convened and coordinated this year’s men’s conference, an event which coincided with Valentine’s Day drawing men from various parts of the country.
Omondi, the self-declared president of comedy in Africa, recently staged a demonstration outside Parliament buildings demanding an audience with the national assembly speaker, Moses Wetangula so as to discuss the high cost of living.
Clad half naked, Omondi and about a dozen masculine men blocked parliament road, a move that triggered arrests by police officers.
Alongside his accomplices, they were charged with taking part in an unlawful assembly outside Parliament.
They were presented before Milimani Law Court, denied the charges, and pleaded to be released on ‘reasonable’ cash bail or personal bonds.
Their lawyer, Mr Danstan Omari said they were content creators, intending to push the government to tame the rising cost of living.
“All these people are international content creators. They went to Parliament to agitate for measures that will deal with the current high cost of living in the country. I urge the court to take judicial notice that six million Kenyans are on the verge of hunger as per the government report,” Omari told the court.
The comedian and 16 others were released on Sh20,000 bond or Sh10,000 cash bail each.
The case will be mentioned on March 6, 2023, for a pretrial conference.
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