A section of male MPs has faulted the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill which proposes stiff penalties for men who ogle at women.
Saboti MP David Wafula said it's not fair for women to insinuate that men are desiring them when they look at them.
Kathiani MP Robert Mbui, Jimmy Angwenyi (Kitutu Chache North) and Paul Otuoma (Funyula) said there is need to properly define the intentional indecent act in order to avoid innocent men from being falsely accused of sexually harassing women in public spaces or Public Service Vehicles.
“How would she know my eyes are lustful when they are not. I may be seeing her as a sister,” North Imenti MP Rahim Dawood said as quoted by Capital.
Machakos County Woman Representative Susan Musyoka had earlier used popular Bongo song by AY and Diamond Platinumz ‘Kula kwa Macho’ to illustrate the discomfort women go through as some men lustfully undress them as they go about their business.
She insisted that men should not be allowed to undress a woman, and even do the act without even touching her.
"It makes you very uncomfortable about your work and then when I hear it being sang in the FM stations, that song of ‘Kula kwa Macho’, it is so explicit,” she said amid cheers from her male counterparts.
The Bill also spells out similar heavy penalties for families who marry off the victim to the offender or prevents police officers from conducting investigations or distorts evidence.