Makena Ngugi, who is in her mid 20s, started using birth control pills while she was just 16 years old.
The revelations were made by Esther Passaris while speaking on Citizen TV.
“Let me give you an example of my daughter. My daughter at 16 came home and told me her girlfriend is pregnant and she wanted to go for an abortion. Her (my daughter) and friends had decided to raise money to enable her do so.”
She added that she had to intervene and advise the affected girl’s family accordingly
“I decided to go and talk to the girl’s guardian and she had a safe abortion. When I looked at my daughter, I then asked myself, my daughter is 16 years old and her friends are already having sex. I had sex at a later age and my parents did not know about.”
Passaris would later take her daughter for counseling before getting under pregnancy pills. To which Passaris argued that parents should stop treating pregnancy as a taboo.
“I told my gynaecologist to put her on a pill at the age of 16. My daughter asked me why I was putting her on the pill at that age when she was not yet ready to have sex. But I explained that it was not because I want you to have sex, but if you are going to have it I want you to make sure that you do not get pregnant,”
The upcoming musician is a daughter Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaris and city tycoon Pius Ngugi.
