"If a client engages you and refuses to pay, go to a nearby police station and report them for obtaining by false pretences. It is a criminal offence punishable by law. In fact the perpetrator can get up to seven years imprisonment (Section 308 of the Penal Code)," he said at the commemoration of the international sex workers day over the weekend in Gaborone.
He castigated society for abusing sex workers while turning a blind eye to their clients. "We do not abuse buyers," charged Ndadi. He said some people who pretend to be champions of morality in the streets, parliament and even churches, are the same abusive buyers that sex workers complain about. He said some individuals even threaten to arrest sex workers if they do not offer them free service. "Some are forced into unsafe sex, beaten up, dumped in isolated and dangerous areas at night. Others are not paid for services that their clients well received and well enjoyed," he said. He argued that sex work is work too, adding that sex workers are also humans who have rights as well.
