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"content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Today is a very sad day for this nation. We have dealt with many forms of gender-based violence for the past ten years or so that I have been in this House but never have we had to talk about a woman being stripped in public for what somebody else considers to be indecent dressing. My heart goes out to those two ladies who had to face the wrath of a mob of close to 100 or more men surrounding them, stripping them naked, pinching them, beating them and doing all manner of things you can imagine. This is worse than rape. When I look at today’s social media, they are giving the story of a girl again who was stripped naked in Kayole yesterday, at around 7.00 p.m. They say she was stripped by a man who approached her and she refused to accept his advances. She was stripped, frog marched to the middle of the road and beaten up like a dog. That is what they are saying here and it is only a policeman on patrol who saved that girl. But today she has succumbed to those injuries at Mama Lucy Hospital. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, how much more of this can we allow to happen in this country? I have heard many men including some Members of this House saying it is wrong to strip, “but you ladies must dress decently”. I am asking; who defines decent dressing? This is because what is decent to you cannot be decent to another person. If we leave this to the definition of mwananchi, what are we exposing our women to? These women are your wives, sisters and aunties. They are your constituents for heaven’s sake. So, if we say that we have to"
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