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Women and activists march in Nairobi CBD to protest rising killings of women and children. [Courtesy, Standard]
As President William Ruto led Madaraka Day celebrations in Wajir, hundreds of kilometres from the capital, women, mothers of missing and murdered children, and human rights activists took to the streets of Nairobi CBD in protest over rising cases of violence against women and children.
The demonstrators, many clad in white, red and black, carrying placards bearing anti-femicide and anti-infanticide messages, walked from Jevanjee Garden to the Kimathi and Kenyatta Avenue intersection, where they sat for a moment protesting the rising cases of killings of children and women and government inaction.
The women said Madaraka Day, which is meant to celebrate Kenya’s self-rule, had instead exposed the painful contradiction where women and children continue to live in fear with little protection from the State.
