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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ahenda",
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        "legal_name": "Paddy Ahenda",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Section 23(2)(a) says:- \"Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is made either explicitly or implicitly a basis of employment or of a career decision affecting such an individual's employment or career advancement.\" Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you know as much as I do that, in this country, there are company executives who have been wrongly accused. Now, it is going to be legalised through this Bill. Any person who seeks employment in any office can go to court and accuse you. You will go in for ten years because you never gave him or her that job. Indeed, in a country like ours where jobs are very scarce, that part of the Bill can be used and misused to jail many innocent people who sit at the tower of employment. I am not talking about men or women. I am protecting both sexes. That is why I do not know why my female colleagues decided to walk out. In fact, I am protecting them. That section of the Bill needs a total overhaul, so that both of us could be protected when people seek employment. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Section 23(2)(b) of the same chapter states: \"Such conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with an individual's work or educational performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working or learning environment.\" This is rather ambiguous. How would one know that where he or she is seeking employment is a hostile environment sexually? It is very difficult to know that. When you are seeking employment, you assume that the environment will not be hostile to you sexually. Therefore, that part contradicts the African culture and social behaviour in our places of work. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is very difficult to prove if somebody comes to look for employment with an intent to have sexual relationship either with the employer or with the person seeking employment. Some people will think even before getting employment, that sexual advances---"
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