Commercial sex workers held a demonstration
in Nanyuki town on Friday
over a colleague's murder, saying police have taken no action.
They accused Kenya Defence Forces soldiers of raping, beating and killing sex workers while camping in the town.
Fridah Wambui was murdered on Tuesday night by an attacker believed to have been her client.
The sex workers' leader and peer educator said Wambui's body was found in a lodging in the town on Wednesday morning.
"We are sex workers because we could not fit in any other career or business but let everybody know we also have rights," Maryanne Wangui said.
An AP officer said Wambui may not have been murdered as her body had no signs of physical injury.
“I arrested the woman a while back and took her to Nanyuki police station. We could not take her to the cells as she collapsed upon arrival," he said, adding she could be sick.
Several cases of the murder of sex workers have been reported and resulted in calls for action, including a petition for President Uhuru Kenyatta to intervene.
The Kenya Sex Workers Association wrote an open letter to Uhuru Kenyatta on October 11, 2015, following the killing of four prostitutes, whose bodies were disfigured.
National coordinator Felista Abdalla said in the letter: “We are hopeful for a chance to a right to be protected by the law and be respected as human beings and citizens of this country."
More than 200 commercial sex workers protested against poor security
earlier that month saying many of their colleagues are killed by men posing as
clients.
