Residents, during a public participation gathering in Ol kalou organized by the Presidential Technical Working Group on gender public Based Violence, have called for establishment of a safe house for victims of GBV in Nyandarua County.
Gloria Wawira a member of the technical working group said the residents also called for the government to allocate more funds meant for the fight against both femicide and GBV.
Ipato Osuru, another participant said cases of teenage pregnancy, incest, battering and some cases of femicide are rampant in the County Osuru, who is the chair of Anti-FGM Board, cited female genital mutilation as another form of GBV that was rampant in Nyandarua.
Osuru noted that the 2022 Kenya Demographic and household Survey put the prevalence of FGM in Nyandarua at 6.9 percent of total County population; a percentage she said shows many women and girls were still undergoing FGM in Nyandarua.
