Gender and Affirmative Action Principal Secretary (PS) Ann Wang'ombe has urged parents to guide their children in an effort to curb the increasing cases of gender-based violence.
Wang'ombe regretted that lately GBV has claimed the lives of many girls and women and advised, "Let's continuously speak to our girls so that they can also learn how to have confidence in themselves.
They can speak out because their voices matter.
We need to bring up girls who are confident, girls who are courageous, girls who can say a big no and a no that can be listened to." The PS, who was speaking during a Thanksgiving ceremony at Ngaru Girls High School, Kirinyaga, said the worst form of GBV is femicide, as most of the reported cases are resulting from intimate relationships, sometimes a wife and a husband, a girlfriend and a boyfriend.
