Kenya: Why Young Mutindi Should Sue the State

28 August 2001
opinion

Was Attorney-General Amos Wako at home when we all watched with horror as a young girl - 11-year-old Mutindi - appeared on Nation TV and stripped to show us the scars she received from her employer?

One would hope he saw what we did; it was painful. So painful that this is not only a simple police case as it is being treated, but it calls for not tough legislation against child labour and total national re-awakening against the crude practice.

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