Woi! Am with Nanfor on this one....forget the smelly armpits and butts being squeezed on your face,i speak for the women who've undergone traumatic pine tree experiences in the hands of peverts in our overloaded matatus and buses!
I went to a day high school and i learnt mapema that if you have to survive sexual assault in buses and mats,you have to be rough. I thus invested in a number of compasses and dividers(zile za mathematical set) and every time i felt a pine tree on my behind,my sharp compass/divider would swiftly manoeuvre its way from my bag to someones balls and pine tree(though the divider worked better with its two sharp points). I still remember the screeches of pain those buggers used to unleash,and of course the agony and embarrasment they had to undergo while trying to explain what happened!heheee.
Then,there was this time in a mat when i was asked to simama between these two seated 'wababa' and BTW,this used to be a better option to being squeezed in the middle lane by the conductor and suffering the elbow shoves and being stepped on as guys fought to alight from the mat! So,there i am,squeezed between this two guys,and kidogo kidogo..i feel a hand tracing its way on my thighs(am in a school skirt BTW),i turn and ask the very stern looking mbaba 'unafanya?' And you guessed right,he completely ignores me and looks out the window! A few minutes later,i felt the hands again! Being very short tempered,i couldnt take it any more,i just grabbed my compass and divider and turned furiously on the mbaba straight at his face! Guys in the mat were shocked to hear what this old guard was doing to a school gal,so the mat was stopped,the guy thrown out and given 'kichapo cha mbwa' especially by the conductors who happend to have seen me regulary in the mat. Years later,i still wonder what explanation that mbaba gave to his wife and kids concerning the bloodied scratched face,torn clothes and black eye! Disgusting pevert!
For the sake of women and young girls living among peverts in our society,I highly disapprove Githes move,Unless they legalize self defense weapons too while at it...
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