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.

The deputy governor said when more women are elected, money that would have been used to pay nominated members can used on development and provision of essential services.

"Women have been left behind in county leadership. For instance in Embu, in all the 20 wards, only one woman was elected. All the other women MCAs were nominated, which begs the question whether women do not believe in themselves," said Ms Nditi.

She called for provision of civic education to women, who make the bulk of the country's electorate.

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