Kenya Girl Guide Association (KGGA) commissioner for training, Ivy Wasike has said there is need to sensitise stakeholders on sexual offences in order to enable them handle such cases adequately.
Addressing Kisii County officials in a hotel in the town, Wasike said the enactment of the Sexual Offences Act had not been matched with an adequate capacity building of law enforcement officers.
She said there was a need to train the enforcement officers on how to adequately handle such cases.
“Police officers and health workers do not have facilities to collect evidence,” she said,
She added that there were limited personnel at the Director of Public Prosecution.
The official at the same time noted that the Act has not been widely disseminated to the relevant judiciary officers and the police.
Wasike said that most cases of defilement collapsed due to lack of enough evidence.
She appealed to the government to take up the responsibility of educating members of the public about the Act, adding that Civil Society Organisations have actively worked hard to do so.
Officials at the forum raised concern that despite the enactment of the Sexual Offences Act, 2006, cases of defilement were still rampant, calling for extra efforts towards addressing the vice.