Clear the road to 2022 elections for women, as from nominations

If current indications are anything to go by, Kenya will have a record number of women elected in next year’s general election.

It is even more heartening to note the increasing number of women, progressively coming out to announce their intention to go for the top seat in the county — governorship. 

It gets most inspiring that among these aspirants are women from some of the most conservative societies in the country, which are yet to elect a woman to Parliament — until the Constitution forced them to do so via the exclusive Woman Representative in 2013. WoN Executive Director Njeri Rugene writes in Daily Nation. Read more…