In Nyeri County, for instance, where no woman won the Jubilee Party primaries for MP or senator’s ticket, female politicians underwent the proverbial baptism by fire during the recent primaries. “I am afraid that from this trend, we may have few or even lack a female deputy governor in our party,” Ms Odinga said. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIS GROUPLONG WAY TO GOShe advices women politicians to be strong and brave and ignore the intimidation. In Isiolo County where female politicians say that despite efforts to put up strong campaigns against their male rivals, they continue to face a lot of intimidation and harassment. Ms Lucy Mworia, who is running for the Isiolo North parliamentary seat as an independent candidate, says that rivals even hire goons to physically harass female rivals.

Source: Daily Nation May 29, 2017 17:37 UTC