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The courts of Milimani in Nairobi. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU
By MAUREEN KAKAH
A man from Nairobi went to court to protest the marketing, sale and distribution of a specific type of condoms in the country.
Williamson Nyakweba Omworo sued Beta Healthcare, Kenya Bureau of Standards (KeBS) and the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) on the sale of Zoom condoms that he claims to be of inferior quality.
He alleged that he used condoms on various women and contracted badually transmitted infections. He also claimed that some of the women with whom he was involved in his escapades became pregnant and that he realized that the condoms he was using were broken.
Since he contracted syphilis and gonorrhea, he lost his wife who accused her of infidelity. partner, lost his job and continues to suffer mental anguish.
COMPENSATED
He now wants to be compensated Sh3,400 for his medications among the other accused of the court.
In the filed documents Mr. Omworo claimed to have used these condoms for about ten months before realizing that they were substandard.
Traveling frequently between his native home in Kisii and Nairobi, he stated that he had bought condoms from various shops, pharmacists and entertainment joints in those cities and those between them for his personal use.
By his lawyers from the firm of Charles Gomba & Company lawyers, he claimed that he learned the condom said he was forbidden to enter the market in Uganda because he did not meet the required qualitative tests and was declared unsuitable for the intended use as it did not meet the required ISO specifications.
He also claimed that when he wrote asking for a letter to KeBS while seeking to know if they approved the use of said condoms, the body was elusive and elusive on the issue.
He argues that there was collusion between the parties prosecuted to disguise the fact that the consignment did not comply with the required safety and health standards therefore violated his rights as a consumer.
PUBLIC INTEREST
"I submit this petition as an individual and for reasons of public interest on behalf of the citizens of Kenya, as the issues raised here affects their health and safety, "Omworo said.
He also baderted that his right to products of reasonable quality, information, the protection of sanitary safety inter alia w
He accuses Beta Healthcare, which markets the product, not to protect its health, safety and economic interests by providing condoms that expose it to the risk of contracting STIs, dreaded HIV and mental anguish to expose. its partners at the same risk in addition to unwanted pregnancies.
"It is imperative and its use indeed economic valuable judicial resources of time to certify this case as urgent, set it for an audience on a priority basis to prevent others Kenyans are exposed to STIs and HIV / AIDS because BetaHealth care continues to distribute and sell the same brand of condoms to the unsuspecting public, "said Omworo
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He also wants that He states that his consumer rights have been violated, that his right to information has been denied and that his right to economic and social rights to quality reproductive health has been threatened. 19659022]
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