Gloria Orwoba

16 Feb

Why I Walked Into The Kenyan Parliament With A Period Stain

wontumionlineNewsGloria Orwoba, Kenya

A Kenyan senator has defended her decision to walk into parliament with a period stain on her trousers on Tuesday. Gloria Orwoba was ordered to leave the chamber by the speaker, who said she needed to go and change her clothes. Proceedings were disrupted by some lawmakers who accused her of an “inappropriate dress code”. In a BBC Focus on Africa radio interview, Ms Orwoba said that “what happened yesterday at the senate was an accident”, but when the sergeant at arms tried to “cover me” and get her back into her car she decided to “walk the talk”: Ms…

15 Feb

Senator Ejected From Parliament Over ‘Period Stain’

wontumionlineNewsGloria Orwoba, Kenyan Senator, Menstrual Period

A Kenyan senator was ejected from parliament after attending a session while wearing a white suit stained red in an apparent menstrual activism campaign. Gloria Orwoba, of the ruling coalition, is due to table a motion on a bill to provide for free sanitary pads on Wednesday as part of efforts to end period poverty. Senators disrupted Tuesday’s afternoon session to draw the Speaker’s attention to Ms Orwoba’s “inappropriate dress code”. https://twitter.com/AbdulahiAdan10/status/1625502999929032707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1625502999929032707%7Ctwgr%5E14e15801173ea4abeafd53f745acf9004222c9f4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myjoyonline.com%2Fsenator-ejected-from-parliament-over-period-stain%2F But the senator protested saying: “I am shocked that someone can stand here and say that the House has been disgraced because a woman has had her periods.”…