The Deputy Government Spokesperson recently released a statement outlining the resolutions stemming from a stakeholders engagement forum held to discuss the alarming rates of femicide in the country.
According to the statement highlighted by Moses Kuria, the government would be engaging the Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK) to instill some regulations that would ensure that perpetrators or prospective perpetrators are caught and prosecuted.
Some of these regulations will involve monitoring short-rental facilities like Air BNBs as well as monitoring phone activity including phone transactions, and conversations to help authorities in tracking criminals conducting Gender-Based Violence (GBV) crimes and more so femicides.
Chidzuga moreover clarified that the short-term rental company was not to blame for the flare-up in murder cases even though several femicide cases reported in the last months have been committed in such abodes.
“We should not be blaming the Air BNBs because they are there for business it is the culprits who are portraying a negative image to air BNBs but through the regulation that will be put in place they will be nabbed.’’
All this comes after DIG Lagat disclosed that there had been an uptick in female murders in the country totalling 97 in just the last three months.
An announcement that caused an uproar from women rights activists and human rights sects across the country.
President Ruto had previously addressed the issue also and directed the homicide detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to initiate an immediate probe into the deaths of several women and girls who had fallen victim to such crimes.
“I know that recently, we have seen incidents of our girls, our mothers, and women who have been murdered in cold blood. Let me say this, the DCI and all the investigative authorities in Kenya must stand up to these criminals.’’
