Female senators, MCAs now claim increased sexual violence, persecution

Women leaders from Senate and county assemblies across the country at a meeting at the PrideInn Paradise Beach Resort yesterday. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

Female lawmakers in the Senate and county assemblies  claim they have come under increased persecution, violation of their rights and verbal sexual attacks in several Houses across the country.

They cited exclusion from committee leadership, revocation of voting rights, and cases of physical attacks. The women MCAs further alleged that their working environment was now more hostile than ever before, and blamed elected male colleagues for the alleged attacks.