Counselling psychologist Josephine Kinya attributes the rising spectre of violence to moral decay in modern families. The older generation, she says, was brought up and modelled better. She says the boy child has been neglected and is growing up without the solid foundation of good family morals.“There is a problem facing the current generation and unless all society members act, we are yet to witness the worst,” she says. “Youth are rushing into relationships without taking time to learn their partners. Within a very short period they get married. When they start settling down, the differences they have dawn on them,” she says. According to Peter Njao, the chairman of the Nairobi chapter of the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, the fabric of the nation is already broken.
Recent cases show that in Kenya (like everywhere else) violence against women ‘is treated like a sensational story’ with the media’s misogynistic representation creating perception tht ‘women are murdered because of their behaviour or lifestyle’- @bintiM https://t.co/SKGYQ2gb7a
— Samira Sawlani (@samirasawlani) October 14, 2018
This disturbing violence has unfortunately made our women mostly targets to wolves who kill with no thought or remorse. Although the murders of Sharon Otieno, Monica Nyawira and Maribel Kapolon have dominated the limelight, many more others may not have made it to prime news. At least ten people — and these are only those that found their way into the media —majority of them women and girls have in the past five months been killed by people they were close to.With the recent killings being that of the late Mary Wambui and the slain NMG and the recent disappearance of Caroline Mwatha,the Human Rights Activist from Dandora.
Human Rights defender Caroline Mwatha has been reported missing since Wednesday. @NPSOfficial_KE @thekhrc @DandoraJustice #Changamka pic.twitter.com/FrFxriyqKv
— Ghetto Radio (@GhettoRadio895) February 9, 2019
Missing persons cases in Kenya always end up in bad news as we have seen in recent history , but it is our hope and prayer that she is found alive and well.