A rape victim. [Photo/Standard Media]
Forty-five (45) suspected rapists are said to be roaming free in Seme, Kisumu County since no one was willing to identify them for fear of being attacked.
This has sent shivers down the spines of many stakeholders who appealed to local security apparatus to move swiftly and arrest the culprits before they harmed more victims with impunity aware that nothing could be done against them.
The revelation came to the fore Tuesday during the County Gender Technical Working Group (GTWG) forum chaired by Kisumu County Director of Gender Jane Obiero where the participants were told that 40 girls had also been sexually violated by wife inheritors.
Obiero said although the majority of the notorious wife inheritors who abused the girls emanated from the neighboring Luanda area in Vihiga County, other culprits were living right in their midst and were blood relatives to the victims.
She singled out the sub-counties of Seme, Muhoroni, and Nyando where there were serious cases of sexually related Gender Based Violence (SGBV) and urged local residents to bite the bullet and expose the criminals who should face the law.
It also emerged that Kisumu County Strategic Plan which ends in 2018 should be reviewed as the County moved into the future, considering that staff in the respective health facilities have already strengthened their documentation.
Meanwhile, Maseno law court will deliver final judgment in a case in which a local chief was charged with having defiled an underage girl.
All stakeholders who were present at the Kisumu County GTWG said they would be present in the court in large numbers to witness firsthand the outcome of the case.