PHOTO/ FILE Mr William Ruto
By WILLIAM RUTO
Posted Saturday, February 11 2012 at 19:53
Posted Saturday, February 11 2012 at 19:53
The proposal by the Nairobi City Council to license prostitution is an indication of the level of moral rot in our society and a clear sign that some leaders have resigned to its fate, which is unacceptable.
It is a known fact that 70 per cent of persons engaged in prostitution come from broken families, street families or children born out of unwanted pregnancies.
It is also a fact that majority of these prostitutes not only use drugs but are used as drug peddlers.
What City Hall is contemplating is to license prostitutes and homosexuals by glorifying them as commercial sex workers and license drug peddling by extension.
Already we have very serious drug and substance abuse problems in Kenya. Our children and families are under attack from this menace.
In Mombasa alone, there are 22,000 self-confessed drug addicts undergoing various stages of rehabilitation not to mention the thousands in denial and the many reduced to zombies.
The thought of licensed drug peddlers roaming our streets in the name of commercial sex workers, the moral decay it portends and the threat it poses to our children is mind boggling.
More so, when all this is so that the city can raise some taxes from this trade.
Shallow thinking
The least we can expect from any leadership is such irresponsible pronouncements made on the basis of shallow thinking.
The city leadership should instead enforce the Children’s Act on responsible parenting and cause parents who refuse to take their children to school but instead use them as prostitute to face the full force of the law.
It should also ensure family planning facilities are made accessible to tame unwanted pregnancies even among the street girls.
Public funded children facilities should be expanded to ensure that all children now roaming our streets are taken to school, looked after and moulded into responsible citizens instead of leaving them to graduate to street families and prostitutes.
There is need to make it possible for parents who cannot afford to raise their children to surrender them to the state to be educated and looked after to eliminate chances of children being in a trap with no options.
Among many other proposals this will help deal with the root cause of the challenges facing our families and society rather than prescribe measure that would only address the symptoms while actually compounding the problem.
Mr Ruto is the MP for Eldoret North.
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