Why female MPs will wear white head scarfs to parliament every Wednesday

Female Legislators on Wednesday afternoon

Over 40 female legislators walked into the parliament building wearing white head scarfs on Wednesday afternoon. The white headscarf is a new scheme that the female law-makers have adopted in a bid to push for the two-third gender rule. They intend to don the scarfs every Wednesday until the National Assembly passes the rule.

The move caught their male counterparts unawares with some of them asking for the Speaker, Justin Muturi to take action on them. Majority speaker Aden Duale felt intimidated claiming, “I have been in this house since 2008 and I have never seen what I am seeing today. Is it within the standing orders of dress code? “It is very intimidating and threatening. This can be a cult or a sect of a religion.”