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Nairobi woman representative Esther Passaris found herself in the midst of verbal backlash from women demonstrating in Nairobi on Saturday, January 27, over the rising cases of femicide.
She joined the ladies in marching in the city centre to voice their concern against the murders that have lately had women as the victims.
A section of the protesters would however not let her be part of the march for having been quiet as the incidents happened.
She had disembarked from her vehicle and was to address the protesters who immediately started jeering.
"Where were you? Where were you? Go back home" their chants were heard.
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She could not address them thereafter.
All the while, her security was on standby to quell any harm likely to be perpetrated on her by the angry activists.
Speaking on the sidelines, the lawmaker did not take offence at the reception she had, vowing to use her post in the National Assembly to voice their grievances.
"I actually suggested we give the petition to parliament it should be a national disaster," Passaris stated.
Within January 2024, a handful of women died in mysterious circumstances, raising concern among Kenyans.
For instance, on January 3, a Nairobi socialite named Starlet Wahu was stabbed to death by a man she had booked herself with into a short-term rental house.
Later on January 13, a 20-year-old lady, Rita Waeni, was brutally murdered and her body severed before being stuffed in garbage bags.
All the cases are the subject of police investigations.
