Nairobi County has passed a motion to ban prostitution from Nairobi City
The County assembly passed the motion, which was introduced 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.
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.
If the county implements the law, prostitution, which is the oldest profession in the world, will be illegal.
Currently, Nairobi alone has over 50,000 prostitutes, where most of them operate from the CBD. Each prostitute charges each client between Ksh 200 to Ksh100, 000 .
