{"id":24766,"date":"2016-04-21T01:09:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-make-room-for-more-women-and-marginalised\/"},"modified":"2016-04-21T01:09:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:09:51","slug":"kenya-make-room-for-more-women-and-marginalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-make-room-for-more-women-and-marginalised\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Make room for more women and marginalised groups, Uhuru urges counties"},"content":{"rendered":"

{The national government, the Head of State said, has conformed to the rule.}<\/p>\n

President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged county governments to do more in ensuring women and other marginalised groups get full representation.<\/p>\n

Mr Kenyatta underscored the need for women to be in leadership positions to conform to the two-thirds gender rule.<\/p>\n

The national government, the Head of State said, has conformed to the rule.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf the 1,450 ward members of county assemblies across the country, [there are] 1,370 men (95 per cent) and 80 women.<\/p>\n

We had to add 572 women from party lists to ensure compliance with the two-thirds gender rule. Representatives of other groups brought the total of MCAs to 2,222.<\/p>\n

\u201cLest we forget, Kenyans did not elect a single woman governor, and, of the members of the county executive committees, slightly more than two-thirds are men.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to be frank. All of us need to do more to make room for women in leadership,\u201d he said in a speech read on his behalf by Devolution Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri.<\/p>\n

DEVOLUTION A SUCCESS<\/p>\n

He said his administration has played its part in making devolution a success in the country.<\/p>\n

This is through giving money and expert staff and close consultations with counties.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we must be frank, the county governments must work with us if devolution is to succeed. And we must be even franker, corruption, waste, mismanagement and infighting are direct threats to the viability of devolution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The president noted with concern that counties will have some of the \u201cfiercest political contests\u201d as the country approaches the next elections.<\/p>\n

Governors and those seeking elective positions, he said, should promote and preach peace.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to make myself perfectly clear, my deputy and I swore that never again would another Kenyan lose his life or his property in the heat of political contest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is our pledge to Kenyans, and especially to those who have suffered in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is your duty to join us in keeping the peace. Let Kenyans choose their leaders without strife, without hatred, or anger. Let us choose our leaders in peace,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n

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