Molo Member of Parliament Kimani Kuria has said that men with multiple wives will be allowed to buy a house for each wife in the government’s affordable houses.
Speaking during a church service in Bahati, Nairobi, accompanying President William Ruto, Kimani said a man can get a house for each wife using the wife’s KRA pin.
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Kimani: “Those men with multiple wives can still acquire affordable housing unit for each wife since only one unit can be obtained using an individual KRA pin. If he purchases units for each wife then he unit will be registered under respective wife’s KRA pin.”
Kimani’s utterances appear to have been directed to polygamous men in Kenya who feels that affordable houses would only suit monogamous fellas.
In Kenya polygamy is legal after parliament passed a bill allowing men to marry multiple wives in 2014.
Polygamy is common among Kenyan communities. Also, Islamic religion which makes up 12 percent of Kenya’s population allows men to marry up to 4 wives.
However, some men have doubted the suggestion saying that the use of wife’s KRA pin to secure a house will mean that the man is not in possession of the house.
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One man who didn’t want his name to be mentioned said that his wives might claim the ownership of the house despite being the one who bought the house.
“My wives are not my relatives, so she can kick me out of the house I bought,” he said.
