Dodoma. The minister for Community Development, Gender and Children, Ms Sophia Simba, has urged MPs and the general public to stop visiting nightclubs and bars where half-naked commercial sex workers, mostly girls, look for customers as part of efforts to discourage the business.
The minister was responding to various questions and contributions by MPs who wanted to know what the government was doing or planning to do to curb immorality in the country.
MPs said that it was now the norm for young girls to wear skimpy outfits that left them half-naked, adding that this was contributing to moral decay and an increase in sexual offences, including rape.
They said it was time the government categorically stated the way forward for the nation as far as morality was concerned.
Mr Joseph Selasini (Rombo-Chadema) said the situation was alarming as many young women wore in public revealing clothes, adding that this was unacceptable.
He said most of them left their homes wearing decent clothes, but changed them on their way to bars and night clubs to deceive their parents and guardians.
“You can imagine, a young girl leaving her father’s home wearing decent clothes, but as soon as she leaves the house, she changes into some outrageus outfit...I want to know what the government is doing to save our children from this situation,” said Mr Selasini.
In her response, Ms Simba said that the first solution was for men to stop entertaining any kind of seduction from girls and to stop going to nightclubs where those girls go to entertain men and get cash from them.
“We do not have a law that allow strippers here, but the first and immediate solution is for us to stop entertaining them,” the minister said.
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