Children sell sex in chang’aa dens
Police pour impounded drums of chang'aa. Photo/FILE
What you need to know:
- Whenever girls as young as 12-years-old are not working as waiters, they are selling their bodies to the patrons for as little as Sh50.
- When this writer visited the slum, he met 15-year Eunice (not her real name) outside one den who told him “Niko kazi,” (I am at work)- one of the many way they use to solicit for customers.
Nairobi Korogocho slum's chang’aa dens are fuelling a child prostitution racket.
Whenever girls as young as 12-years-old are not working as waiters, they are selling their bodies to the patrons for as little as Sh50.
From the little money they get, they have to give their employers who double as their pimps a Sh10 fee. So rife is the exploitation that brothels have been built to make maximum use of the children's bodies.
Mututho rules limiting the operating hours of alcohol selling outlets do not apply in the dens. Drinking and prostitution goes on day and night.
When this writer visited the slum, he met 15-year Eunice (not her real name) outside one den who told him “Niko kazi,” (I am at work)- one of the many way they use to solicit for customers.
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