abduction

"We see detentions, we see abductions, forced displacement and torture," she said.

But months to the election, a wave of abductions, arrests and the brutal killings of opposition members gripped the country, shattering hopes for reforms and reconciliation.

Months to the election, a wave of abductions, arrests and the brutal killings of opposition members gripped the country, shattering hopes for reforms and reconciliation.

Last year, Njagi was picked up in Kenya by masked men during a wave of abductions believed to have been targeting government critics in the country.

"I cannot be happy like other women who went to school. I need justice for women who went through abduction like me," Evelyn Amon, 42, told the BBC.