The Senate Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights (JLAHR) has pushed for an urgent policy shift to stop the prosecution and re-victimization of Female Genital Mutilation survivors. Meeting with the Anti-FGM Board leadership, the lawmakers agreed that the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act of 2011 has inadvertently led to victims being treated as criminals.

The Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury Hon. John Mbadi has assured the Committee on Finance and National Planning that there is no cause for alarm on the Kenyan economy even as the ongoing war in the Middle East threatens to dampen global growth prospects.

He was speaking when he appeared before the Committee to apprise the lawmakers on the policy responses the government was undertaking to cushion Kenyans from economic shocks as a result of the war.