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Uganda: Kampala Pastor Slams Prostitutes
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New Vision (Kampala)
27 March 2008
Posted to the web 28 March 2008
Kampala
THE women organisations that called a conference for sex workers should use that money in more developmental projects, Pastor Martin Sempa has said, reports Eddie Ssejjoba.
Sempa of the Makerere Community Church, asked the Government to investigate groups behind the banned conference and their source of funding.
"According to the invitation letters of which I got a copy, some of the prostitutes were from outside Uganda and they had been promised per diem, money for air tickets and free accommodation just to train them on how to benefit maximally from their trade," he said.
The conference that was scheduled to take place at the Imperial Resort Beach Hotel from Wednesday to today was banned by the Government.
It was organised by Akina Mama wa Afrika, a women's NGO, the Nairobi-based Open Society Initiative for East Africa, the Sexual Health and Rights Programme and the New York-based Law and Health Initiative of the Open Society Institute.
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Ssempa said the organisers committed a crime. "We are becoming suspicious of women organisations spending a lot of money to promote prostitution, which is outlawed in this country. They should be charged with conspiracy to commit a crime."
The invitation letter, which The New Vision obtained, said the workshop "was designed to focus on the participants' needs and an evaluation of the most urgent human rights violations they would like to address".
The letter was signed by the executive director of Akina Mama wa Afrika, Solome Nakaweesi.
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