There is a growing number of day and night time sex workers in the country’
This what a section of MPs have been debating after getting a report from National Syndemic Diseases Control Council (NSDCC) has said.
Among the leading counties in the number of hookers are Nairobi and Nyeri respectively.
The National Assembly Committee on Health was on a fact-finding mission at the Council, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB).
The MPs’ mission was to try and understand the challenges and successes in the three institutions.
The legislators were shocked to learn of the emerging problem of day-time sex work, which is now expanding fast to include women who don’t necessarily venture out at night.
“In fact in a county like Nyeri, I have had a meeting with the daytime sex workers, and it’s a very difficult group to deal with,” the Council’s Chief Executive Office, Dr Ruth Laibon Masha told the committee.
She said this is because they leave their homes, go to town engage in sex work the whole day, then at 5pm they go and pick their children from school, and go home wit some married women.
And due to this, the Council is confronted with a challenge as meeting them becomes difficult.
“It becomes a huge challenge trying to meet them, since it has to happen during the day,” she said.
Sometimes, unlike the other sex workers who venture out at night and go to clubs, this particular group, Dr Masha pointed out, don’t go to any club.
