Kenya’s Gender and affirmative action principal secretary calls for abolition of kangaroo courts
According to the principal secretary, the county has in the past three months recorded 46 SGBV cases with the latest case involving a 76-year-old man who had repeatedly been defiling a nine-year-old girl. Similarly, a total of 106 suicide cases were recorded in the last 11 months in the county with a majority of the victims being men.
Rattled by violent unemployed youth protests, Kenya moots NYOTA programme to pre-empt restiveness
Cabinet Secretary Salim Mvurya also announced that NYOTA will be fully rolled out during the International Youth Week in August, noting that by then, many applicants will have been certified to begin receiving support. Fikirini echoed the cabinet secretary’s sentiments and urged youth to make use of the available opportunities.
