The State has been urged to come up with tougher laws that can ensure victims of defilement and rape get appropriate justice following the rising numbers of such cases in Nyamira.
Speaking on Tuesday at Mosobeti area, aspiring women representative Jerusha Momanyi said the existing laws were not stiff enough to curb the vice and warned of continued acts of rape and defilement if State failed to enact legislations through parliament.
The women accused MPs of watching the vice escalate without coming up with actual solutions through legislations.
“Rape cases are real and we have lived with them. The victims have remained in distress and torture and that is why we want expeditious justice. This can only be done through legislation and that is the function of the state to mobilise members of parliament. We want stiff rules put down,” she said.
Mrs Momanyi suggested a death penalty for the convicts besides calling for life imprisonment for those found culpable of the offense.
“Let us work around the clock and ensure these people who are fond of doing injustice to our young people are punished accordingly. We need a law that will condemn convicts to a death sentence and those found culpable of the atrocity subjected to a life imprisonment,” she added.
They urged the government to investigate the alleged rampant cases of rape and defilement in Nyamira in a bid to bring the culprits into books of justice.