- Passaris also condoled with the families of the deceased.
- “I don’t know how any parent can heal from that… My prayers go out to the families, friends, community and the country,” she said.
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Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaris has condemned the rise in cases of women being killed.
Speaking during an interview on Thursday, Passaris said the femicide cases reported were horrific and the suspects should face the full force of the law.
She referred to the recent case of Starlet Wahu and lauded the victims for telling their stories.
“I’m so proud of the witnesses who came out after Starlet Wahu’s story was aired and reliving that pain by talking about it because that I hope, will keep that man behind bars," Passaris said on KTN
"Sometimes I feel that we have scrapped the death penalty, but people like that should not be living on our taxes.”
The ODM legislator described some of the cases as cult-like and serial killer-like, graphic and painful.
Passaris also condoled with the families of the deceased.
“I don’t know how any parent can heal from that… My prayers go out to the families, friends, community and the country,” she said.
Passaris also cited the murders of other women in the past years including Ivy Wangeci and Sharon Otieno.
Ivy Wangeci was a medical student at Moi University when she was hacked to death in 2018.
Sharon Otieno was a student at Rongo University who was also murdered in 2018.
In addition, the second-term Nairobi woman rep said that it is not fair that these victims are being turned into statistics while urging speedy investigations into the cases.
The recent cases of deaths involving women within Nairobi have drawn reactions from Kenyans on social media with civil societies calling for action.
The case of an unidentified woman’s body found chopped and stashed in a sack in Kasarani on Sunday caused an uproar on social media platforms.
This prompted Kenyans to call for action over the looming femicide problem.
This came days after socialite Starlet Wahu was found murdered in South B, Nairobi.
A report titled Homicide Country Data released in 2022 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime states that 706 cases of femicide, or 2.64 cases per 100,000 women, occurred in Kenya in 2021.