Kisumu county women representative Rosa Akinyi Buyu has called upon members of the August House to adjust laws dealing with rapists.
Buyu who toured Nyalenda A Ward yesterday told the National Assembly to come up with laws that will deny rapist bail.
She noted that women hailing from Nyalenda slums, Kisumu have been suffering in the hands of rapists who hide within unfinished buildings within the area.
“It is sad that when rapist gets arrested and they are taken to court. The courts grant them bail which they get back to community and threatening of repeating the same and no action would be taken,” Buyu said.
Buyu also blamed the police officers who ask victims for eyewitnesses, saying witnesses also ends up being locked behind bars for what they have not committed.
“There is this notion when you go to a police station to report you are asked for the witness, where will a victim get the witness, who may end up locked in,” she added.
Buyu who was a companied by former Nairobi county women representative Rachel Shebesh urged the Kisumu county governor Peter Anyang Nyong’o to ensure proper lighting is installed within Nyalenda estate to help curb insecurity.
This comes barely a month after several women were injured by unknown attackers where some were raped and others cut with machetes on their upper limbs and foreheads.