“If you don’t have money, the men (market officials and some local men) will demand to have sex with you to waive the payment. "If I were to report him, I would have to leave this market,” Wanja says. Joyce Mwangangi, a paralegal working with women traders, confirms that Nairobi market officials are notorious perpetrators of violence. “Abuse against women traders has been sanitised. She adds that the women traders are more vulnerable than most other working women because they are low-income earners.

Source: Daily Nation January 13, 2024 21:29 UTC