A Nairobi MCA has tabled a motion in the county assembly seeking to compel the county government to drive out sex workers from the CBD and the county. Kibra ward representative Jane Muasya said the number of commercial sex workers in Nairobi has increased in the past few years.
She told the assembly that sections 153 and 154 of the Penal Code chapter 63 of the laws of Kenya prohibits men and women from living wholly or partly on earnings of prostitution or from soliciting.
“We are concerned that the enforcement of the provisions of the Penal Code on prostitution remains lacklustre and those commercial sex workers now undertake their unlawful practice openly within the CBD.
This assembly urges the county government to move with speed and vigorously enforce the provisions of the law to deter the vice within the CBD,” Muasya said.
There have been reports of an increase of male and female commercial sex workers in Nairobi. Muasya said the Nairobi government must restore sanity by driving away sex workers. The motion will be debated once MCAs resume assembly sittings. They are going on a two-week recess.