Nyali lawmaker Hezron Awiti has promised to intervene and help commercial sex workers from Mombasa after the County Assembly passed a motion that seeks to remove workers from the streets.
According to Awiti, the directive is discriminatory to women yet men were the major culprits, therefore, he will seek to have the law reversed.
“You are being treated like criminals but you have not done anything wrong. Is it not men who come after you at your working areas? Or is it the other way round? I don’t think so. And why then are the men spared?” posed Awiti.
The Nyali MP while speaking at a meeting with the sex workers at the Kenol Petrol Station in Nyali on Wednesday, however, urged them to quit the trade and start alternative income-generating projects.
He proposed the sex workers to form three groups by Friday after which he will lobby to assist them to get trading spaces within Kongowea market with the help of the Constituency Development Funds Kitty.
“The initiative will offer sex workers with funds to help them in venturing into income generating activities which will remove them from the streets,” he said.
He further condemned police officers for arresting and harassing commercial sex workers in Mombasa.