Opinion

Andrew Mwenda & Singer Sheebah Kalungi

National chatterbox Andrew Mwenda is accused of indecently assaulting singer Sheebah Kalungi. According to Sheeba Kalungi, Andrew Mwenda tried to seduce her while in a car and she refused. After she refused, Mwenda reportedly instructed his body guards to cover up and he reportedly fingered her by force. This annoyed Sheebah who tried to run away from the scene without performance, but she was reportedly forced to perform on gun point.

Here is a public concern;  people are asking, ‘all along Andrew Mwenda harbors sexual feelings? If yes, why hasn’t he married? is he waiting for such opportunities to indecently assault skimpy dressed singers? Well, whatever happened, but there is a problem.

On the other hand, Sheebah Kalungi is a fashion freak; a murderer of fashion! However, that does not give Andrew Mwenda a ticket to finger her. If he felt uneasy in his  medulla oblongata (the part of the brain that joins the spinal cord and is concerned especially with control of involuntary activities (as breathing and beating of the heart) necessary for life), Mwenda as an intellectual had better way of doing it other than doing it a boda boda way!

In fact, Sheebah has gone viral on Instagram. According to her, Mwenda pretends on TVs to look good and holy, yet their heads are full of s**t. She has always respected him as a role model, but this incident has opened her eyes; exposing the animalism in him.

Andrew Mwenda is not an isolation case; such men like him have been brought down by powerful women like Sheebah Kalungi.

Such men had often gotten away with it for years, and for those they harassed, it seemed as if the perpetrators would never pay any consequences. Then came the report  that detailed Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assaults and harassment, and his fall from Hollywood’s heights.

A year later, even as the Me Too movement meets a crackling backlash, it’s possible to take some stock of how the Weinstein case has changed the corridors of power.

A New York Times analysis has found that, since the publishing of the exposé (followed days later by a New Yorker investigation), at least 200 prominent men have lost their jobs after public allegations of sexual harassment.

A few, including Mr. Weinstein, face criminal charges. At least 920 people came forward to say that one of these men subjected them to sexual misconduct. And nearly half of the men who have been replaced were succeeded by women.

In the year preceding the Weinstein report, by contrast, fewer than 30 high-profile people made the news for resigning or being fired after public accusations of sexual misconduct. The downfall of the Fox host Bill O’Reilly in April 2017 turned out to have been just a foreshock of the changes to come.

“We’ve never seen something like this before,” said Joan Williams, a law professor who studies gender at the University of California, Hastings. “Women have always been seen as risky, because they might do something like have a baby. But men are now being seen as more risky hires.”

Sexual harassment has hardly been erased in the workplace. Federal law still does not fully protect huge groups of women, including those who work freelance or at companies with fewer than 15 employees. New workplace policies have little effect without deeper cultural change. And as the Supreme Court confirmation battle over Brett Kavanaugh showed, Americans disagree on how people accused of sexual misconduct should be held accountable and what the standard of evidence should be.