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    "id": 1234072,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Westlands, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tim Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this chance to speak to the Report by the Committee. Sexual harassment anywhere, whether at the workplace or at home, is primitive and sickening. There are people who do this by misusing and abusing their authority over the people they manage. Those are people who use any small opportunity to exploit others who are junior to them. It is not just about women; it is also about men. Men are also harassed. But those who suffer the most are women. Stigma is very high. This should be made painful. It should not matter what position one holds. The harassment should be made punishable. We should encourage those who are harassed to report without fear, so that the harassment is dealt with. We should create a special unit in the National Police Service to address this issue. Most police officers do not understand the harassment. When people go to report, some officers try to make a joke out of it. In this era of social media, we are parading ourselves. Sometimes, we put ourselves out in the public and expose ourselves to anything and everything. Even our former governor used to post very many things on social media. You will find yourself in that position and I do not know who you will complain to. You are in a position where people have access to you. Just make sure you do not allow cameras in your privacy. Do not allow pictures when you are doing your private thing. Even when you are eating, do not take pictures; just keep the cameras away. Those are some of the things that are being exploited. We must preserve our personal dignity. We must preserve some of the things that we do that make us human. This is a Motion that we must take seriously as a society. It also says a lot about our values. Our values have really changed. People do funny things even in church. People sit awkwardly in church and allow cameras to roll around them and then post the clips on social media. I do not know what it is you want to see. As Africans, we believe that the sweetest thing is that, that is hidden, not the one that is exposed. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the good thing is that you must work for it. Even gold, you have to dig down in the rock, break that rock and then put it around the fire to make it valuable. I want a thing that I would labour to get there and not just one that is already exposed to me. I will lose appetite, maybe, before I get there. What was circulating in the social media was sickening. Those people who have done that have lacked self-respect; no respect for themselves and even the people around them, including their own family. As fathers, husbands and sons, we must protect the dignity of our women at all times, at any place and anywhere."
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