Kisumu County Executive Member for Education, Gender, Sports and Youth Affairs Jennipher Kere has warned that cases of gender-based violence are on the rise in Kisumu County.
Speaking to members of the press in Kisumu on Wednesday, Kere said there is a lot of gender-based violence within families and in the communities given the fact that they receive reports of children being molested and defiled mostly by relatively.
“We have started constructing rescue centres and at the moment they are two. The rescue centres are going to take in children who have been abused both physically and sexually,” she said.
She said this will help in ensuring perpetrators of gender-based violence, more so against children are dealt with according to the law.
She also said cases of children who hawk in the streets of Kisumu particularly at night are rampant, indicating that they intend to deal with that situation with a relevant law.
“We are creating a law that will be passed in the Assembly that will ban hawking by children on the streets of Kisumu,” she warned.