Nyandarua governor's wife for women rights

Nyandarua First Lady, Kezia Wanjiku Waithaka has taken a leading role in championing for the rights of women, youth and people living with disabilities by ensuring their rights are not violated.

Governor Daniel Waithaka Mwangi wife said her office will this year supply sanitary pads worth Sh4 million to school girls.

“I will be combing through the county offices to ensure women and youth get 30 per cent tenders as required by law,” Waithaka said.

She was addressing hundreds of women grassroots leaders drawn from all the eight wards in Kinangop subcounty on Saturday. She was accompanied by co-ordinator of women affairs in the governor’s office Mary Sogo and Kinangop constituency women leader Elizabeth Wanjira.

Waithaka said some donors have promised to give funds to be shared among all the 47 First Ladies in the country to be used in buying more sanitary towels.

She asked women and youth to form savings and co-operative societies and register groups to enable them access Uwezo Fund and the Youth Enterprise Fund.

She congratulated women leaders from North Kinangop ward for spearheading the formation of saccos and women groups that have enabled 38 groups access the funds.

“A woman must lead in the war on poverty to ensure your children don’t go hungry,” Waithaka said.

Women leaders who spoke during the meeting held at Kwa Haraka trading center, praised President Uhuru Kenyatta for launching a major onslaught against the consumption of second generation brews that had turned youths into zombies.

“This war for total eradication of second generation brews should not be stopped until the brews are no more. Our children must be saved from this slavery,” Wanjira said.

The women recounted harrowing experiences in the hands of their husbands and sons who had turned into consuming the brews, saying many men had abandoned families leaving the burden of bringing up and mentoring children in the shoulders of women.

Mrs. Waithaka said the county government will continue the fight against the illegal brews, and appealed to women to take up leading role in agriculture to create wealth. Ends