Blogger Robert Alai is accusing a presidential aspirant of infecting multiple women with HIV/AIDS. According to the blogger through his Facebook account, he alleges that the presidential aspirant has infected different women with the virus knowingly which is contrary to Kenyan laws.
The blogger also revealed that the said presidential aspirant has been doing the act under the protection of powerful state officials where he goes ahead and offers these women top governmental jobs in different offices.
Alai also added that so far four women have come out crying for help and they are currently living in regrets.
According to Kenyan laws it is a criminal offense to knowingly infect an individual with HIV and
(1) Any person who, having actual knowledge that he or she is infected with HIV or any other life threatening sexually transmitted disease intentionally, knowingly and willfully does anything or permits the doing of anything which he or she knows or ought to reasonably know –
(a) will infect another person with HIV or any other life threatening sexually transmitted disease;
(b) is likely to lead to another person being infected with HIV or any other life threatening sexually transmitted disease;
(c) will infect another person with any other sexually transmitted disease,
shall be guilty of an offence, whether or not he or she is married to that other person, and shall be liable upon conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less fifteen years but which may be for life.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, where a person is charged with committing an offence under this section, the court may direct that an appropriate sample or samples be taken from the accused person, at such place and subject to such conditions as the court may direct, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not he or she is infected with HIV or any other life threatening sexually transmitted disease.
(3) The sample or samples taken from an accused person in terms of subsection (2) shall be stored at an appropriate place until finalization of the trial.
(4) The court shall, where the accused person is convicted, order that the sample or samples be tested for HIV or any other life threatening sexually transmitted disease and where the accused person is acquitted, order that the sample or samples be destroyed.
(5) Where a court has given directions under subsection (4), any medical practitioner or designated person shall, if so requested in writing by a police officer above the rank of a constable, take an appropriate sample or samples from the accused person concerned;
(6) An appropriate sample or samples taken in terms of subsection
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