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    "id": 1234030,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Let me just conclude because I do not want to delve into those issues. Women are being harassed in work places. Let me not say office spaces because harassment happens everywhere, even in tea estates. This is something that labour organisations, the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, and our labour unions, must take a keen interest in. I encourage women leaders to take up positions in labour unions. Most labour unions are made up of men. I only see men in almost all of them, including tea estates, dock workers, the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET). I encourage our women leaders in this country to take up leadership positions within our labour unions, so that they speak on behalf of women. We must condemn the harassment of women in the strongest terms possible. We should support this Report on the harassment of female workers in tea estates. It does not just happen in tea estates in Kericho. It also happens in Kisii, Meru and everywhere you find tea estates. Women are very vulnerable. Because women are hardworking and they have to fend for their families, they feel that they must give in to those men who harass them in order to keep their jobs. However, we must speak on their behalf and protect them. If we do not protect women in tea estates today, tomorrow, it shall be women in our families and in this House being harassed. You have heard Hon. Millie say that even women leaders are being harassed. I assure Hon. Millie that I will always protect her and she will never find a photograph of us anywhere. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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