President William Ruto has announced the appointment of 16 women as ambassadors to various countries across the world.
Speaking on Friday, Ruto said the appointments are in honor of the contribution of women in the leadership of the country.
Of the 16 appointments, 10 will serve as ambassadors while the remaining six will be deputy ambassadors.
“This morning I have appointed 10 more women as ambassadors in different parts of the world and another six deputy ambassadors in recognition of the contribution of women in the leadership of women,” Ruto said.
He, however, did not disclose which countries they had been appointed to.
Ruto affirmed his commitment to ensuring more women come into leadership in the future.
The President said that they have also resolved to be highly intentional in ensuring that constitutional gender inclusion is achieved.
“We’ve also resolved to be highly intentional as I was requested here by the Embu Woman Representative in actualizing the Constitutional Gender inclusion principle or the one-third rule through various strategies including at the party and policy level for elective representative positions in Kenya,” Ruto said.
The Head of state urged women that even as they seek to be in leadership, they must start by believing in themselves first.
He added that his administration will do everything in its power to ensure that women are protected.
“I want to ask the women of Kenya to listen to me. As we believe in you, the women of Kenya must believe in themselves. It begins with women believing in themselves and we will do whatever we can to support women but I must say to the women of Kenya that you must start by believing in yourself. That way you can make progress and together we can make progress,” he said.
“We are going to mobilize every resource to protect our mothers, girls, wives, women, and daughters.”
