{"id":947,"date":"2022-08-18T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=947"},"modified":"2022-08-18T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T11:39:21","slug":"maendeleo-ya-wanawake-hails-voters-for-electing-women-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/maendeleo-ya-wanawake-hails-voters-for-electing-women-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Maendeleo Ya Wanawake\u00a0hails voters for electing women leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"994\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-18-at-1.50.42-PM-1-1024x994.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-18-at-1.50.42-PM-1-1024x994.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-18-at-1.50.42-PM-1-300x291.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-18-at-1.50.42-PM-1-768x745.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-18-at-1.50.42-PM-1-1200x1164.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-08-18-at-1.50.42-PM-1.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Ronald Njoroge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women\u2019s lobby organizations<em>Maendeleo Ya Wanawake\u00a0on Thursday hailed Kenyan voters for electing women as leaders in the just concluded August general elections.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairperson Mrs Rahab Muiu told journalists in Nairobi that Kenya elected more women leaders in 2022 as compared to the 2017 elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want to congratulate all women who have been elected as governors, senators, MPS and MPs,\u201d Muiu said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William Ruto was declared the winner of Kenya&#8217;s presidential elections after garnering about 7.17 million or 50.49 percent of votes cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muiu also commended the courage, determination and resilience of all women who stood for elective positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTogether we have built stong social and political capital which we will keep on enhancing into the future,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MYWO also said that it will continue to pray for peace and urged all Kenyans to continue upholding peace until everything is concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ronald Njoroge Women\u2019s lobby organizationsMaendeleo Ya Wanawake\u00a0on Thursday hailed Kenyan voters for electing women&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}