The Abebo hit maker, Akothee has been criticized for her Watamu performance which was said to be indecent. Her stage performance where she opened her legs caused chaos for a whole week after the concert happened. She has been defending her self saying that no one should follow her steps for she is living her life as she wants. After all, that’s what brings food on her table.
She has shared a message on hr Instagram page reveakling that her act of openmg leg is nothing compared to what girls face in public. She narrates; ”Some leaders lack basic manners and use offices to lure young girls into sexual harassment for favours. some are so primitive that the only thing they see in a woman is a Sex object. young educated girls are at more risk than the ones already in clubs and discos, if you start invading our space as women we shall expose all of you.
In 2005 I went looking for a job. even if its a sweeper in one of the minister’s office. I had met him through a friend we go to church together. every time I went to his office, I would be the last one to be served, I stayed in the reception the whole day, he went for lunch and came back after 3 hours, I was still patient, I never got tired , everyday I thought it was my day, so, the last day after going there for a week, I finally got to see him about 8.00 pm when everyone had left coz he asked me to stay behind!
I came in and told him my story and gave him my form 4 certificates coz that’s all I had his answer: you are a brilliant beautiful girl! then he said he will give me a lift, so we went into his Mercedes Benz. we drove He pulled my dress up. Akothee explains how she was sexually harassed off, at about the roundabout of integrity centre, he took his ugly fat hands and put them on my thighs pulling my dress up, I grabbed his hands and threw it back to him.
He felt offended and put the car beside the road at community and kicked me out of his car It was dark in the middle of nowhere, whatever happened.Did he care whether I got rapped, killed, murdered? Coz I had only 20 bob with no phone so there was nothing for thieves, But this was somebody’s daughter, someone’s mother.