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    "id": 1234204,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1234204/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kaiti, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Kimilu",
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    "content": "Kericho tea estates should be working to support the community around it and improve their living standards instead of harassing them. They are harassing women. Sexual harassment is very dangerous and bad because it even leads to unexpected pregnancies. To our young girls, we are working hard as legislators to pay for their fees so that they can go to school, get good education and secure good jobs. It is shameful if someone can work and after getting a job, be forced to do such an act. Harsh punishment should be imposed on the perpetrators. As a country, if we do not stand firmly to change our laws and impose harsh punishment on this, those vices will continue happening to our daughters. It is high time we stood with other Kenyans who are suffering at the hands of people who intimidate them. This is very bad. I support this Motion because tomorrow my daughter might land in the hands of such people. Sometimes, those acts lead to depression of women and girls. When they go out to seek jobs, they get harassed and because of fear and stigma, they end up being depressed. It is high time we made sure that those acts will not happen in other organisations. Those acts can also lead to early marriages. When those girls are harassed, they get depressed and end up in early marriages. I support the Committee. Those are evil vices and we need to show the world that we want to protect our girls. As Members of Parliament, we need follow-up on such reports to the end. We need to make sure that those involved in such nonsense are brought to book. If we fail to do that, this will keep happening in other institutions. Those acts can also lead to unwanted pregnancies and infertility. So, I support the Report and congratulate the…"
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