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Who will protect our women?

Even with the law in place, babies are still being defiled; grandmas raped, and young women stripped naked in broad daylight for being indecently dressed. Where are we headed? Asks GARDY CHACHA

The images have been played on our screens at prime time news. A woman in Meru hacked to death by her husband, a lady forced to succumb to a man’s raging sexual whims, an octogenarian grandmother too helpless to protect herself from a young man with gothic fantasies, and most recently, a woman in Nyeri powerlessly fighting testosterone-potent men hell bent on stripping her naked, a crime they aptly accomplished.

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