SENATOR KAREN NYAMU THREATENS TO LEAD NAIROBI WOMEN IN NUDE PROTEST

Nominated Senator Karen Nyamu has threatened to lead Nairobi County women to undress in the fight for the rights and recognition of people living in the city’s slums.

Nyamu spoke on Wednesday October 18 in support of a Bill tabled to advocate for an increase in funds for slums. Nyamu, pushed for Nairobi to benefit from more allocation resources, vowed to mobilise women in the county to strip naked in the streets if need be.

“We are talking about Korogocho, Soweto, Viwandani, Riruta and all these other areas. I want this House to recognise these regions as marginalised because they are marginalised. Just because they neighbour Karen or Muthaiga or other rich estates does not mean they should be ignored. They are not children of a lesser God. We have been crying as Nairobi for these slum dwellers and we have been ignore over the years and are going to result even to unorthodox means,” she stated.

According to Nyamu, Nairobi has been left out of similar budgetary allocations with presumptions of the county as a ‘rich’, “As Nairobi women in Laini Saba, Kiboro, Mji wa Huruma…we’re going to undress in this town so that we get the attention of these policymakers and this House and the legislators. Nairobi is not a rich county; just because we are the seat of government and we happens to have rich estates does not mean we are rich.” She said a substantial number of people reside in slum regions and in tough living conditions.