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Women leaders laud BBI report for promoting gender equality
Kitui Governor Charity Ngilu together with women leaders address the media on October 23, at Panafric Hotel in Nairobi where they said they fully support the BBI process.
Photo credit: Jeff Angote | Nation Media Group
What you need to know:
- The women agenda is one of the key questions the proponents seek to address as a key constituency to the passage of the constitutional amendment
- The women leaders said the 50-50 representation of elected men and women to the Senate should be offered equal powers to vote, especially when it comes to determining the county allocations.
Women leaders, among them Kitui Governor Charity Ngilu, have thrown their weight behind the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report, but called for a clear implementation matrix to the gender equality proposals outlined.
The Coalition for Women Leaders and the Common Women Agenda (Cowa) yesterday warned that unless a clear roadmap was set, there was a risk of the proposals remaining on paper as it happened with the two-thirds gender rule which has not been implemented a decade after the passage of the Constitution 2010.
