Women get Speaker Justin Muturi nod to go for ‘top-up’ to fill gender gap

After days of shrill uproar over a Bill postponing the deadline for implementation of the two-thirds gender rule, women leaders cornered Speaker Justin Muturi and piled pressure on him to sign off a Bill to amend the Constitution and allow for over 90 women to be nominated to the House after a General Election.

The women, led by chairman of the National Gender and Equality Commission Winfred Lichuma, Njeri Kabeberi of the Centre for Multiparty Democracy and Cecily Mbarire of the Kenya Women Parliamentarians Association (Kewopa) caught up with the Speaker in his office and insisted he had to approve the Bill.