An independent human rights mechanism organisation dubbed 'Tweguu Akase' championing for human rights for the community in Nandi has sensitized church women on how to go about violation of human rights in a bid to enable them fight gender-based violence in the locality as well as ensure justice for the victims.
The organisation which was established as a grievance mechanism in 2023 by Eastern Produce Kenya Company Limited, provides a safe and accessible way for employees and the surrounding community to report grievances related to gender-based violence, sexual harassment, assault, defilement, rape, domestic violence, child labour and child maintenance.
Speaking during a social event held at Chemomi wetland garden that brought together Seventh Day Adventist women (SDA) drawn from Nandi Hills, Isaac Owondo an advocate at the Tweguu Akase revealed that the objective of the organisation is to ensure residents as well as workers in the tea estates understand their rights and that they have a platform that they can present the issues affecting them such as sexual harassment, domestic violence defilement and rape among others to ensure they get justice. Owondo divulged that their organisation receives grievances and starts working on them at zero cost calling on residents to come out fearless and report such bad habits to save the modern community where we are experiencing an upsurge of such incidents rather than solving such cases in the kangoroo courts adding that most cases are never solved in a fair manner. "Cases against human rights such as gender-based violence, sexual harassment, rape and defilement should strictly not be solved outside court.
They greatly affect and tarnish the victims' lives," pointed out Owondo, adding that such incidents lower one's self-esteem.
