By MN Reporter
Migori Woman Representative Pamela Odhiambo has been challenged to finish up a stalled Gender Based Violence rescue center she inherited from her predecessor Dennitah Ghati.
The stalled center in Maeta area, Kuria East sub-county was started by Ghati and has stalled for close to five years.
Benter Adhiambo, Micontrap Monitoring and Evaluation officer said Migori plan for the center, which will also support gender based violence victims, has been agenda for activists for long.
“This has been our agenda in the last two general elections for political promises and pledge which should not be the case in 2022 general elections,” she said.
She said women and girls shunning FGM have opted to seek shelter with relatives or move across the border to Tanzania because the center has stalled.
“We need the office of the woman representative to complete the rescue center in Maeta, or build a new one,” she said.
Salome Robi and Sheila Nyamohanga from Rosabare area in Kuria said they were circumcised and the negative effects of vice made her resort to keep away her three daughters, eldest being in form two, from the vice.
“My parents have been struggling to have the girls circumcised, I have been forced to always have them visit relatives during the season which is expensive,” Robi said.
Currently Komotobo Mission Center managed by Maranatha Church is the only rescue center in Migori but it has low capacity.
In a recent interview at a local vernacular radio station, Odhiambo she inherited the incomplete center, an ICT center in Awendo and markets in Rongo, Isibania and Muhuru Bay towns which have been completed expect the center.
“We had the challenge of seeking funds to complete them,” she said.
The center is said to have been started at a remote place which is insecure especially against hostile community against activists which has been the main challenge.