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Time to address this femicide madness

The late Ivy Wangeci.

Ivy Wangeci was just yards away from becoming a doctor before she was brutally murdered in broad daylight. She did not deserve to die. No one deserves to die that way.   

It is a sad narrative of a girl doing something the other sex cannot stand or simply misunderstands. When this meets frailed egos and a lifetime of mental health issues that have been pushed to the backburner, never being discussed, the result is total lunacy. Despite this cry for help, the country is plunged into a state of chaos and insensitivity as people use these deaths as fodder for memes, jokes and even inspiration for future acts of madness. In this melee, no solution presents itself.

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