Ms Murugi who was speaking in Nairobi during the opening of a meeting for Gender Affairs Ministers of East Africa on Wednesday also said women should contest for the other available seats in order to increase women representation to 30 percent.

“With the harmonised draft we are hoping to get the 47 seats that we have been promised but we are saying that is not even enough because it only translates to 13 percent. We are hoping that (number) can be the starting point and we want to sensitise women so that they can also vie for other seats,” she said.