Women have been urged to be united to be able to bargain for their rights as a team instead of waiting for free freebies.
Kisumu County Maendeleo Ya Wanawake organisation Chairlady Atieno Otieno said women have the capacity to push for their agenda.
She said the two-third gender rule women are agitating for would be a not be an issue if they were united.
She said women make up of 56 per cent of the voting block and are capable of voting their fellow women into leadership.
She said if this can work, then there should be no need for the gender rule.
“Women are the majority just need to organise themselves and remain united, that way they will elect women into these positions and forget about the gender rule,” she said.
Speaking in Kisumu on Friday after the two-third gender rule forum that was organised by the parliamentary select committee on justice and legal affairs, Atieno, however, said women have continued to pull in different directions.
She said women themselves continue to fight women who have ascended to power thus limiting their chances of holding to power.
Atieno said women should not allow to be used to fight elected leaders and further asked the communities in the country to allow women to contest any post they deem fit for them.
“I have seen women leaders who are being fought by the same women who are agitating for the gender rule, why can we allow the women we have elected to power to complete their term and recall them during the election of they fail to address our needs,” she said