A presenter with the conservative American TV network, Fox News, is on the receiving end of Kenyans’ wrath over comments she made on live TV that Kenyan women don’t have voting rights.
Emily Rose Compagno, who co-hosts the news review program Outnumbered, was apparently giving her two-cents on some American celebrities’ views about women’s voting rights.
According to her, as far as voting rights go, it does not get any worse than countries like Kenya because over here, pregnant women are barely allowed to get out of their houses.
“These comments are totally delusional. So she’s talking about, what, voting rights? That we have less voting flights here?” a passionate Ms. Compagno posed.
“What about in Kenya where pregnant women can’t leave the house so they absolutely have no constructive right to vote or in Oman, where women have to vote as their husbands due or risk death?”
Dear @FoxNews I am appalled at the insinuation by this panelist on your show that pregnant women in Kenya don't have voting rights. This is not true and unfortunate. #KOT pic.twitter.com/FPfH4OFOn9
— ElijahRottok (@ElijahRottok) July 7, 2022
Of course her comments were false and as expected have not gone down well with Kenyans. Online users are now demanding that she withdraws the remarks as well as an apology from the television network.
😳 @FoxNews!
What is this? What is @EmilyCompagno saying? That in Kenya pregnant women can’t leave the house so they have no right to vote? What does she imagine our country is like? That statement is incorrect, misleading, condescending and should be withdrawn. pic.twitter.com/nHAoj9puZK— Pauline Njoroge, HSC (@paulinenjoroge) July 6, 2022
Thank you @EmilyCompagno for highlighting the plight of pregnant women in Kenya and a big applause to @FoxNews for providing the platform. You can donate and help out in our litigation against this outright inhumane culture.
— #NairobiMedTech (@NairobiMedTech_) July 7, 2022