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Even with my placard, employers still wanted sex, woman graduate speaks up

Yvonne Okello displays a job advert placard on Ngong Road, next to the Telkom House in 2019. [Courtesy]

It’s unimaginable the toe-curling experience most female graduates who make placards and beg for jobs on the streets and highways often go through in the hands of male predators draped in expensive suits and seating behind expensive mahogany desks.

Standard Digital sought out one job seeker and here is her story.

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