Police in Dedza district have asked all sex workers to stop patronizing children in drinking joints in an effort to protect kids from risks that can ruin their future.
The point was said during a day-long meeting that police in Dedza and sex workers under took at Dedza Town Hall on Friday.
Dedza Police Station, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Emmie Soko, said it was sad to note that some sex workers were patronising drinking joints with kids, saying the behaviour put kids to risks of abuses.
“A bar or drinking joint is a place for adults, not kids, so it is hazardous to take kids to such places as they are prone to all kinds of bad things and abuses such as sexual, psychological and physical,” Soko pointed out.
She asked the sex workers to work hand in hand with the police by giving tips to the law enforcers whenever they came across people suspected to be criminals.
In her remarks, Chair lady for Dedza Sex Workers Committee, Eliza James said the committee would, from now and on wards, not entertain any sex worker who will patronise drinking joints with kids.
She said sex workers were thankful to Dedza Police for organising such a meeting where they were drilled on human rights and HIV/AIDS among other issues.
40 sex workers from Dedza Town and Dedza boarder attended the meeting.
