Members of parliament under the  Uganda Parliamentary Forum for Children have  shocked with testimonies by young mother prostitutes at parliament.

According to these prostitutes some of whom have children, they face several problems ranging from forced sex by their clients and police officers who arrest them.

Macklean-Kyomya Spokesperson of Uganda Sex Workers Association

The prostitutes pinned police officers on arresting them and confine them in some corridors where they force them to have sex with them in order to be released and worse still, they don’t use condoms.

The young prostitutes urged government to come up with programs aimed at empowering such groups economically so that they can abandon their illegal business, in addition to sensitizing them about the relevant laws to defend themselves against what they called illegal police arrests.

Meanwhile, the MPs led by Luweero woman MP Rebecca Lukwago donated various items ranging from soap, sugar, clothes among others to the prostitutes and their children but encouraged them to look for alternative work instead of prostitution.