Nairobi MCAs Pass Motion to ban prostitution in the city

Nairobi County Assembly on Friday passed a motion prohibiting commercial sex in the City.

The motion was moved by the MCA for Woodley Kenyatta Golf Course ward, Mwangi Njihia, who argued that sex trade in the capital has become an open air business without consequences and therefore the city needs nip the vice in the bud.

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I am deeply concerned that this business is today happening rampantly and openly within our communities without repercussions on the offenders as provided for in law,” said Njihia.

The motion received overwhelming support from Members of the Nairobi County Assembly who raised concerns on how palatial homes and restaurants have been turned into brothels.

They urged Governor Mike Sonko to “move with speed and robustly enforce the provisions of the law to deter commercial sex in the county.”

Nominated MCA Mellab Atema seconded the motion and asked the County Assembly to save Nairobi youth from the vice and diseases that come with it.

“We need to plan on how to get those involved in this business back to the society and rehabilitate them. However hard it may seem, we have to act,” said Atema.

Penal Code

The penal code criminalises aspects of prostitution, stating that: “153(1) Every male person who knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution or in any public place persistently solicits or importunes for immoral purposes, is guilty of a misdemeanor…”

It adds that: “(2) Every woman who knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution, or who is proved to have, for the purpose of gain, exercised control, direction or influence over the movements of a prostitute in such a manner as to show that she is aiding, abetting or compelling her prostitution with any person, or generally, is guilty of a felony.”

It will now no longer be legal to commercialise sex in Nairobi, whether on the streets or in brothels.

It will just be a law on paper

The only time Sabina joy aka karumaindo ever closed it’s doors was during 1982 coup ! It has never effa done so again! Recently gov kidesh gave the owner keys to city!

“nip the vice in the bud”

It is full on a forest with full grown flaura and fauna.

Now even more manpower will be spent on “busting” such dens, however they can legalize it, register the businesses and tax them hard like the tobacco market.

Mike Sonko pia huwa customer.

Devolution C’s was also here

Good move, but prostitution is a consequence of rampant poverty and unemployment and recently quick success by our ladies who don’t want to break a sweat earning and honest living .

Kwani SJ with all that money they have made all those decades they did not lobby by taking the MCAs to MSA for “Team Building”

This is the reason why @uwesmake today has been in a foul mood:D

Kina wamboi na wanjiru si wataumia jameni!!!

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Our so called leaders are a joke. They seem ignorant of the underlying issues to many things. Watu hawana pesa ama jobs. Prostitution and petty crime will be there in number. Deal with the underlying factors. They’ll get good PR and congratulations, but the reality is it will not end just because it was banned.

this is unacceptable , how do we recall an MCA ?

nafikiria hizo brothels ziko estates kama hurlingham ndio target

If that was true it would only be practised in poor countries. Its very prominent in rich countries as well.

Sasa wataangusha kampuni ya trust na Viagra tu hivo

Prostitution is there even in rich countries. Honestly i don’t see what is the problem with prostitution, as long as it involves consenting adults

@spear and @Useless Spectator y’ll don’ get my point. Prostituton has always existed and will always exist, issue is how as a society , prostitution has gone way up than it has ever been in Kenya. Either y’ll indulge in it or are too blind to see the vice in society . It has never been this rampant and casual before . All can be attributed to accepting western values as the norm.

Sasa Sonko and his team badala waanze na chokora, hawkers na matatu wameanza na mapoko which is a victimless crime

badala wa deal na garbage utaona wanaunda special police ya kudeal na hawa dada zetu