The groups who include women were arrested during a police operation yesterday night from the Dusta, William, and Wilson road in Kampala.

According to the metropolitan police spokesperson IBin Senkumbi , these have been conniving with sex workers to mug people at night when power goes off and steal their valuable.

Meantime, Police has urged UMEME to be considerate of some places before load shedding.

This follows an early morning chaos by business people operating at Nasser and Nkuruma who have been protesting a shortage of electricity for four days.

The metropolitan police spokesperson, Ibin senkumbi says that inconsiderate rationing of electricity is likely to cause chaos among the disgruntled electricity users.

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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.

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