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    "speaker_name": "Narok County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rebecca Tonkei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to also contribute on this Motion on sexual harassment in workplaces. I thank Hon. Beatrice Kemei and her Committee for bringing this Motion. It is not only women in Kericho Tea Estates that are suffering. Sexual harassment is in all workplaces. Women are suffering and this blocks them from taking leadership positions. When you are harassed in your workplace, you hardly go to the office because you fear to appear there. At times, when you go there, you fear facing the harasser. It is time that the law is enforced so that women are protected. Sexual harassment comes in many forms. Sometimes, when you greet a man, he presses your hand very hard. That is sexual harassment. It really harasses one until you ask yourself whether you should shake the man’s hand the next time you meet him. Sexual harassment causes mental depression. You become depressed and stressed. Every time you want to go to work, you think of the person in authority who you are going to meet. When you think of meeting that man in the morning to allocate you duties, you are depressed. Even sleeping at night becomes a nightmare because you fear meeting your harasser. Looking at what is happening all over the world, women are judged harshly. When a video like the one we saw recently circulates, people do not judge the man who is circulating it harshly, but the woman is judged harshly and yet, it took two people to do that. It is time that people should know that women are human beings. They have feelings and they have a right to sex. Therefore, nobody should be circulating this if it happens because that is still harassment. I do not want to dwell on that issue because some of those things give us stress. We feel very bitter that we do not have something to do about them. As Hon. Millie has said, we should be aware of those people. Women colleagues, friends and women out there, I advise The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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