Alarm as gender based violence rises in the Coast

Saida Mwinyi, nurse at Coast General Hospital: Most of these victims tell us they want a P3 form to just scare their husbands. When the cases go to court, they forgive them and withdraw the cases.

A recent incident in Mombasa of a pastor stabbing his wife to death before slitting his own throat in front of the congregation has raised concerns on the rising cases of gender-based violence (GBV).

Statistics compiled by ‘Counting Dead Women’ in 2019 placed the number of women killed due to marital and love-related issues at 108, with the last one being a gruesome killing of a wife and two children by a Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldier.