Maendeleo ya Wanawake Organisation (MYWO) Kitutu Chache South Sub-County branch has raised concern over increasing cases of widow disinheritance in the area.
Area MYWO chairlady, Teresa Moseti has asked local community members to stop harassing and chasing away widows from their late husbands' land and property, only to share the same among themselves after the widows have fled their matrimonial homes.
Speaking in Kisii Town on Friday, after attending a women leaders forum, Moseti challenged the local provincial administration to ensure widows are protected against harassment and disinheritance of their late husbands' land and property by their brothers-in-law, subjecting their children to misery.
Moseti said after the death of their husbands, widows become targets of intimidation and harassment to scare them away from claiming ownership of their late husbands' land and property, to the detriment of the surviving children who are normally rendered homeless by their immediate relatives.
"Due to the widows' ignorance on the succession procedures and laws, some brothers-in-law take advantage of the situation to conspire with the local provincial administrators to disinherit the poor widows of their late husbands' land and property through dirty tricks," said Moseti.
She advised widows from the area to ensure they have death certificates of their late husbands and the children's birth certificates as evidence to disapprove their brothers-in-law in court if the case on the disputed land and property moves to court for determination.