137 sex workers arrested from various Lodges and Guest Houses in Solwezi Police raid

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ABOUT 137 sex workers were on Thursday night apprehended from various Lodges and Guest Houses during a police operation in Solwezi.

The sex workers were apprehended between 21:00 hours and midnight at various lodges and Guest houses within Solwezi central business.

North Western Province police commissioner Eugene Sibote said the sex workers were rounded up from three named Guest Houses an on-going operation.

Mr Sibote said the sex workers had invaded various lodges and Guest houses prompting Government officials and those from the private sector to face accommodation problems each time there was a workshop in the district.

He said prostitution was illegal in the country and therefore would not allow the sex workers to continue conducting such acts.

“We have apprehended over 137 prostitutes because it is illegal, not allowed in the country and at times suspected criminals are harbored in the same premises where these people live,” he said.

Mr Sibote warned lodges and guest house owners that they risk having their business licenses revoked if they allowed sex workers to continue operating in their premises.

He said the sex workers would remain in custody until they appear in court.

And a 31-year- old witchdoctor of Lusaka has been arrested after he was found administering traditional medicines to members of the public at one of the guest houses during the same operation.

Mr Sibote named the suspect as Hussein Mbewe, a witchdoctor who was allegedly practising witchcraft.

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    • chota lishina lyama hule. nalikweteko ba yama aba sendele ichili hule chi chota,baisa chi temwa sana and he wanted to marry her. gelo ukwisa chinjafye amano pa last. i suppose her career was much more important than a marriage. Up to now am still looking for ba chota. am sure by now she has made it big in her career. limbi niba pimp nomba with a ka training institution. buti chali chisuma chi chota. even as a young boy i could still appreciate her beauty. Good old days!!! CHOTA!!!

    • chota lishina lyama hule. nalikweteko ba yama aba sendele ichili h.u.l.e chi chota, baisa chi temwa sana and he wanted to marry her. gelo ukwisa chinjafye amano pa last. i suppose her career was much more important than a marriage. Up to now am still looking for ba chota. am sure by now she has made it big in her career. limbi niba p.i.m.p nomba with a ka training institution. buti chali chisuma chi chota. even as a young boy i could still appreciate her beauty. Good old days!!! CHOTA!!!

    • chota lishina lyama hule. nalikweteko ba yama aba sendele ichili h.u.l.e chi chota, baisa chi temwa sana and he wanted to marry her. gelo ukwisa chinjafye amano pa last. i suppose her career was much more important than a marriage. Up to now am still looking for ba chota. am sure by now she has made it big in her career. limbi niba p.i.m.p nomba with a ka training institution. buti chali chisuma chi chota. even as a young boy i could still appreciate her beauty. Good old days!!! CHOTA!!!!

    • So if a woman lives in a lodge in Zambia then she is a prostitute? Are all men living in Lodges Johns too?

      This is harassment and a violation of women’s rights. Where all these women caught soliciting after midnight?

      The women’s lobby group must do their job and protect other women. Zambian women generally lack self worth thats whey this is happening.

    • @ Nubian,
      In Zambia a dressed up and made up woman is a prostitute, a woman who is able to fute her own bills is a prostitute, a women on a girls night out are prostitutes etc. I doubt the womens lobby will do anything infact they might judge their fellow women with the same judgement given by men! Ofcourse there are exceptions but in Zambia… there is non at all!

    • Its not fair.They are just trying to be innovative by using a God given pleasure hole to make a living because they know that us men can`t do without that golden hole.Mulebalekafye bushe kapunda kenu ?

    • I support u young man.Life today is difficult & u are there holding 10 jobs by ur family.how do u thnk my sista as a school leaver will survive?Stupd Idiots.

  2. leave them alone, at least the are makin an honest living, not stealing tax payers money, or hiding billions under foundations.

    • 137 women/prostitutes arrested for taking up all the rooms at 3 very POPULAR lodges where government officers PREFER to hold workshops. it sounds an awfully large number of unaccompanied women (allegedly prostitutes) for just just 3-lodges! there are nearly as many as 55 very good lodges in Solwezi, going by the average of 45 prostitues per lodge, that would number at least 2,511 prostitutes in upmarket Solwezi. There are even more such women in the cheaper and poorer areas where service is more “traditional, cultured, real, and inexpensive”.

      Jesus would have challenged the men throw the first stone at these women, they meet a need, fill a void, their business is transactional. save the courts time for more complex crimes.

  5. The fact that there is no opposite sex it can be dificult to prove them guilty coz sex is not done alone where are the guys? please LT give us their names along side their fotos

    • There is demand, there is supply. There will always be trade.

      Thousands of men that want sex, high testosterone levels, full balls, plenty of rhumba, booze, add even an ugly woman and there will be screwing.

  7. Give them Licenses to operate!
    Too many STIs being transmitted in the backyard!
    No License for those with STIs.
    License though does not make this practice right but will go a long way in protecting poor housewives from their HE GOATs and tame the spread of disease!

  9. Does Solwezi even have a big enough remand prison to hold 137 women overnight? An unnecessary abuse of human rights. And to think that one of the reasons given is that they are causing an accommodation shortage!! If they are paying for the facilities let them be!! Is there money less worthy than that of unnecessary workshop attendees? Besides it is a symbiotic relationship as the same out of town workshop attendees are the main clients for the same women

  11. Police please concentrate on more sensible issues than this. In the first place how does one identify a prostitute? Can you identify the people fanning trouble in the PF than waste time detaining sex workers who deny you sex!!

  12. Naimwe ba pickson mu lanyengeshako naimwe, be serious men. leave them coz balatwafwa than ukwikata umwaana, mind u niku north western ukwaba imilando yameyamene iya zembululwa.

  17. Ke ke I was just laughing at the comment that the customer is always right.well this was good operation by the law enforcement officers. U guys from solwezi how many guys were arrested as I beleive this was not isolated operation.

  19. …….the ‘district’ is out there just to make NEWS…the girls don’t even need a lawyer for their defence…..they will only require one to claim compensation for wrongful detention…..
    …in fact, human rights and women NGO’s are supposed to come out strong and condemn this police ‘harassment’…there after organise counselling sessions for the girls…..

  20. Hullo you lawyers out there. How do you prove a charge of prostitution? By the way beyond doubt. Don’t you need to have evidence of the sexual acts? The payment?

  21. Leave them . You must instead go and kill all the pigs , dogs and chickens in Southern province. The Solwezi prostitutes are better choice than the animals and chickens.

    • @Worried you remind me of one Tonga Bull who hammered a pig in Mazabuka. What is better..a pig or a solwezi prostitute?

  23. What plans are thre to relocate them? If there is nothing to offer them so that they undergo transition, those involved in apprehending them are just waisting time and other precious resources. Give them something sustainable to do instead of parading them.

  24. Where are the evidence? did you find them in an act? did they have marks on their back that they were selling sex? how do you identify a sex worker? sex workers had invaded various lodges and Guest houses prompting Government officials and those from the private sector to face accommodation problems each time there was a workshop in the district, that’s just a sign that the province is growing.
    if this is true, Lodges and Guest Houses owners should sue the Government coz they are your clients

  25. I suspect ba ZP demand sex from these sex business girls for free hence this reaction. The girls are not even violent like PF and MMD cadres. With them it is about negotiation. Get to the root for them to sell their bodies. Most of them are rejected/orphans or even keep their grannies through that business. You have arrested them, what is next? Find them jobs or take them to Lilayi for training to join you ba ZP.
    Get to know that prostitutes are married women who go for sex to other men apart from their husbands.

    • “…….. prostitutes are married women who go for sex to other men apart from their husbands”.

      Spot on. And they are many in offices and homes but the law can not touch them because they use their husbands cars to ply their trade. So don’t demonise these sisters of the night. You might just be keeping a similar one in your home.

  26. This is just stupidity at it’s best, we are going back to the days of any accompanied lady found at Inters or Taj(or any hotel) in the bar is a prostitute. Solwezi is a business hub ladies including Gents are getting down to sale and buy various commodities from different parts of the country including neighboring DRC and Zimbambwe. No one was found in the act and being paid, let the poor ladies enjoy their freedom of movement in their country.

  28. The for the arrest is very dull. Government officials and those from the private sector as well as the unfortunate arrested women (not prostitutes) are all customers to guest house/lodge owners. First come first serve. Should other people lack accommodation just because there is a workshop to distribute and share tax payers money. I’ve been living in a guest house here in Livingstone for more than 10 years and it’s just like my home and i’ve even started negotiating for title deeds so that i just buy the apartment. I pay rentals every month to the guest house owner. Many Government officials and those from the private sector come to taste my fruits whenever there is a workshop. Spare me from mentioning their names. It’s just another career please! Just accept us.

  29. I meant, the reasons for the arrest is very dull. Government officials and those from the private sector as well as the unfortunate arrested women (not prostitutes) are all customers to guest house/lodge owners. First come first serve. Should other people lack accommodation just because there is a workshop to distribute and share tax payers money. I’ve been living in a guest house here in Livingstone for more than 10 years and it’s just like my home and i’ve even started negotiating for title deeds so that i just buy the apartment. I pay rentals every month to the guest house owner. Many Government officials and those from the private sector come to taste my fruits whenever there is a workshop. Spare me from mentioning their names. It’s just another career please! Just accept us.

  31. The Right of Admission is reserved by the owners of the Lodges. The alleged Sex Workers have the legal right to Associate legally hence their presence at the Lodges where they stole nothing but legally bought food, beverages and accommodation. By the way why not arrest their partners as well since it takes two to engage in the purported act. Worst prostitution is found in offices and some homes among high class people.

  32. If these women paid taxes on their income, the police would not have arrested them because the govt would have been a beneficiary. But because the govt find it hard to tax such revenue, they’ll declare such income and profession illegal yet some of them even get better services from them. Problem is civilisation has not yet caught up with most govts.

  33. Legal way is to open strip clubs in solwezi and the girls should pay for a renewable 4 months license to dance in those clubs from the council. Smart move which works in the west world!!!

  34. THERE ARE SERIOUS ISSUES IN MOST MARRIAGES THATS WHY PROSTITUTION IS EVER THERE.
    BUT, DO THESE COPS HAVE ANY EVIDENCE? THEY ARE JUST INCONVENIENCING THESE LADIES.
    GO FOR TAX EVADERS INSTEAD.

  35. I am a man. My view is that while prostitution is morally wrong and against the law in Zambia, it is equally wrong to target women only. Sounds like we are in an Islamic country where women are watched all the time for any hint of immoral act while men are free to commit all sorts of immoral activities. Are we a Christian nation or an Islamic state?

  36. Mudala kolwe that is a lot of data were doing nkweno on the behalf of your uncle? you sound like one happy family, mula teya bu gover, am sure she must have been very good at what she does. Do you have her address maybe we can try coz I think she must have been that good for you you still have fond memories of her.

  37. Police are turned vigilantees. Mr. Sibote Please dont dehumanize our women. Whats happening in Zambia? On wednesday Mr. Sata went to Mansa and dehumanised our mothers and sisters now its Sibote in Solwezi. Can the HRC and women Lobby Group rise to the occasion and protect humanity. Professionalism is fading away in this country. I wonder what the diplomatic community are doing in Zambia. They had all their balls to campaign for PF now they have been castrated by this dictators.

  38. hypocrites, pompwes! Those lodges are not govt lodges, you own none of them. Come on, build your own and stop ths nonsense! If you think you’ll END prostitution, you are dreaming. You can only legalise it. Infact a substantial chunk of your workshop tax-payers is spent on such services; but now you want to pretend. Ala iwe!

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