Kirinyaga Governor and Council of Governors Chair Ann Waiguru has pledged to stand with women leaders who have been cyberbullied.
Waiguru said that as a victim herself, she understands that it is vital to support other women.
She was speaking during the launch dubbed Stop Cyberbullies Now! A campaign by Echo Network Africa.
She said that there are some attacks that are harsh and vile while others lack a reaction.
"There are those that upset you but there are those that make you wonder whether to be angry or not," she said.
She recalled that in both 2017 and 2022, she had the privilege of running against two other women, Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua and Wangui Ngirici.
"The attacks online in 2017 were bad but 2022 was worse because we had also seven male candidates running," she said.
She said that for some reason, the campaign teams of the other candidates tended to focus their attack on women candidates, mostly on appearance and associations.
"So you are assigned a boyfriend on the internet. Your features are put out there and they start circulating," she said.
She said those people really didn't care about the impact of that kind of attack on an individual or their family for that matter.
"There was one day we woke up and our legs as women aspirants were on social media," she said.
She said they were not being elected to walk. It is not our legs but what it is we had done for the last five years.
Despite those attacks, she said, aimed at discrediting her leadership and undermining her authority, she was not deterred.
"And I continue to focus on my main goal," she said.
"I, therefore, urge all of us to remain resilient and focus to scale the highest leadership positions," she said.
