Residents of Nandi County have been warned against normalizing the killing of women and children in their midst, a leading human rights crusader has warned.
Nandi County civil rights crusader and End Femicide Coordinator, Monica Jepkoskegei told a public participation forum on Gender Based Violence (GBV) at Eliud Kipchoge Sports Complex in Nandi County that there was a big threat to normalize femicide because the locals don't speak loudly when such incidents happen.
Jepkoskegei said she wanted the Nandi Community to collectively condemn femicide and other forms of GBV as statistics show a rise in such violent cases. "Femicide is about societal loss, something devastating to the nation and to the children, parents and relatives of those affected," she insisted.
She proposed that sensitization on GBV and Femicide should to be prioritised and institutionalized as a strategy to increase awareness and make communities collectively fight the vice. "People are quiet when a femicide case happens in their community; they are quiet when they lose a mother or a sister to GBV," she said.
