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Kenyans urged to elect more women members of Parliament

Embu, Kenya: Embu Deputy Governor Dorothy Nditi has urged Kenyans to elect more women legislators to tame the escalating wage bill.

Nditi said the Senate, National and the 47 County Assemblies were spending billions of shillings to pay women lawmakers who were nominated to achieve the constitutional two-thirds gender rule.

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