200805141316 | RDC raps Police on arresting sex workers

RDC raps Police on arresting sex workers

ARREST both the sex workers and the men who buy them or else leave the prostitutes do their work, the Rakai resident district commissioner has told the Police.
Ida Bikorwenda said by rounding up the ladies of the night from the streets and leaving their clients at large, the Police was unwittingly encouraging the vice.

“It is not wise to arrest the women and leave their clients to continue seducing other young girls into the practice.
“We want to see the men who buy those women on the same Police patrol vehicles being taken to the cells.” They should even be paraded so their spouses and friends would know what they are up to in the evening.

The selective arrests, she suggested, was a form of bias or corruption which had to be stamped out.
Bikorwenda was on Tuesday speaking at a consultative meeting on integrity for leaders from Masaka, Rakai, Kalangala, Wakiso, Lyantonde and Sembabule districts.

The seminar was organised by the ethics and integrity ministry at Serona Hotel in Kyotera town. Participants noted that the laws against corruption were weak and implemented selectively.
They noted that senior Government officials guilty of graft did not face the same punishments as district officials.

“Some people are being witch-hunted and squeezed yet others who commit similar offences are left untouched,” said Rakai LC5 chairman Vincent Semakula.
The Kalangala district Police operations chief, Samuel Omara, wondered why Police officers suspected of taking bribes were arrested last week yet those who gave it to them were let off the hook.