Nominated Member of Parliament David Sankok says marrying early is a good thing that most Kenyans who have not married should embrace.
While considering himself as a good example, the MP boasted of his success in a lengthy write-up he shared on Facebook.
He says he married at the age of 21 then invested in sharpening knives, a job that earned him enough money to pay for his university fees.
At 22 years, he was elected as a student leader and using his salary and allowances which amounted to Ksh 9,000, he says he paid his wife’s school fees.
According to him, being married at 21 was a big deal terming people who marry late in their 40s as failures.
He argues that being a youth is entirely based on age and not other factors like marriage.
“Because you married late(at 40) doesn’t make you a youth instead it makes you a failure. Because you remained in your mother’s kitchen longer than us doesn’t make you a young man instead it makes you a beggar,” he wrote.
“Therefore; Grow up and stop referring to us who married earlier than your elders, yet we are at the same age bracket.
