NO MINISKIRT – Mutula turns around - MISQUOTED

The Kenyan DAILY POSTNews03:51

Monday July 23^RD 2012- Following a massive public outcry and an ensuing public debate about Education Minister Mutula Kilonzo’s utterances that advocated for high school girls to wear mini-skirts, the Minister has now come out claiming that he was misquoted by the media.

“I did not say that mini-skirts are officially allowed to be worn by female students. No. I was misquoted. As a matter of fact if it was up to me I would not even allow mini-skirts in work places,” he said.

Mutula Kilonzo further said that it would be ridiculous for any one to allow high school students to wear mini-skirts.

“I was saying that if the girls did not want to wear long skirts they should be given an alternative,’’ he said.

The former Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister stepped on a ‘stinker’ last week when he suggested that school girls should be allowed to wear short skirts since they were studying to be ‘kenyans and not nuns’.

Mutula made the statements in response to protests by students in Rwathia Girls in Kangema District who got the attention of the country after they demanded that the school allows them to wear shorter skirts.

Consequently, his statements managed to attract a veritable tsunami of criticism especially on Kenya social media. But it is not only in the social media that his statement brought debate, parents also came up aggressively claiming it was not only inappropriate for the minister to allow mini-skirts but it also will lead to loss of morals in the students.

The Kenyan DAILY POST