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    "id": 1214655,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1214655/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "This crime is one that is prosecutable under the Sexual Offences Act, yet goes on unabated because no one wants to hold multinationals accountable. How else would we explain our silence 11 years after the Kenya National Human Right’s Report on the same? The media has now chosen to highlight it and I take it to the door steps of the Unilever and Finlay’s and doubtfully, Members have been exposed, and we cannot, therefore, remain silent. If we do not do anything, what will we tell the women of Kenya? Do we care? Do we value them? Are we so interested in profits that we turn a blind eye to such atrocities that can only be equated to modern days to slavery? Hon. Deputy Speaker, who will give justice to the women who work in Unilever and Finlay’s Tea Plantations? I am asking this House to ensure the multinationals do not continue to sexually abuse our women on our forefathers’ soil. It is an abomination and a curse on our land when the cries of our women are deafened by money in the name of investments. Lastly, the first step today is for Mr. Joseph Chebochok, Mr. Jeremiah Koskei, Mr. Samuel Yebei and Mr. John Asava to sleep in jail tonight. We can then call upon the cabinet secretary to take the necessary action. Thereafter, then we can take the next step that no woman is safe when they are still roaming around. Multinationals have to be held accountable. There should be no more flowery sexual harassment policies on paper and nothing tangible to show for it. It is very sad for the women from Kericho who are now HIV positive, their families and their children. Thank you."
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