A former aspirant for the Kiambu Woman Representative June Koinange has called on women in Kiambaa Sub-County to seek leadership positions in the region.
Speaking to women at a Mother’s Union meeting on Sunday at the ACK St James Church in Kiambaa, Koinange said women in the area fear taking up leadership positions due to the negative perception that they are for men.
She said one does not have to be in political leadership for them to be considered leaders.
Being a leader according to her has more to do with influencing people’s lives positively and women have the ability to do that.
Koinange said women in Kiambthe sub-county have become contented with being housewives and running small businesses, leaving the men to take up leadership positions where women are not properly represented.
Koinage advised women to take up leadership positions so that they can set a good example to their daughters with good leadership skills.
She added that most school going girls have no ambition of becoming leaders as there are not enough women leaders to encourage them.
"I would like to urge you to rise to the occasion and vie for leadership positions, this will encourage our daughters to be good leaders in future," said Koinange.
The chair lady of the Mother’s Union group in the church, Charity Kirika said the former aspirant in the county had done well to educate women on leadership issues as most of them have it in their minds that only specific women can lead.
Kirika said she has witnessed that whenever a group is being started in the area, women elect same leaders in charge of already existing groups.
She also said women leaders in Kiambu County should come together and encourage more women to take up leadership for a change.