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Commercial workers in Bo city, Southern Sierra Leone has complained that while their trade is lucrative recentlty they have been victims of abuse and intimidation.
The southern city is believed to be the city with the highest s**x workers in the West African country.
“According to the recent IPSS study, Bo city has the highest number of s**x workers in all the cities in the country,” said Kemoh Mansaray, Guest Speaker at the International S**x Worker’s Day organised by Kakua Hospice and partners in Bo.
S**x workers in the city said while they have been professional in their job, they have been facing harassment from some customers and security personnel in the city.
“At times, most of the men have bad odour and some times police normally arrest me as early as 9 or 10 PM,” one of the s**x workers at the event said.
Another worker complained that she is doing the job to sustain her three children but face abuse from some customers.
Prostitution is not illegal in Sierra Leone but police normally use the Public Order Act to arrest commerciaCworkers for loitering.
In another news, human and women’s right organisation, AdvocAid has dragged Sierra Leone to the ECOWAS court because they believe that the country’s loitering laws go against international human rights laws.
I believe this should reach the first lady who is bragging that their government has brought pride and protection for women. What has she done for this disgraceful scenario?
Mr Kamara you are missing the point. The first lady has nothing to do with that. The ladies there chose to do sex work as their choice of livelihood and it is legal to become one. After all there have been sex workers over all Sierra Leone before even the first lady was born. So stop this cheap politicisation of issues that have no link to our first lady.
She is an advocate for girls below 18 and not prostitutes. I hope you understand that.
Your facts are fallacies, how do you arrived at this data?
most of these sex workers are university student, some parent and some relatives are the main course of these prostitution they send their gal child to university without sponsoring them they only pay there fees unless that gal start following his coligue in prostitution because thas the source of income of that friend.
parent and gudian should come together to end this call your child frequently check on her make effort with any little you have that gal need protection and gudian visit her often she will afraid of going in to prostitution.
The issues of sex worker is becoming a norm in Sierra Leone. These women choose to do so by letting men sleeping with them for which there more way out there to fend living instead of prostitution. However, I didn’t see any statistics to show Bo has the highest sex workers.
I strongly believe the data is not correct,hmmm,this capital city of ours has more commercial sex workers than Bo,Makeni n Kenema put together.Freetown alone,what are you saying?
Please go back to the drawing board and revisit your data….