“It’s better for the government to legalize prostitution & tax them than police arresting them’ – Renowned Lawyer
A legal practitioner is calling for the legalization of of prostitution and it’s taxation as against the regular arrest of the perpetrators of it. He said fear of police meant sex workers had little time to negotiate services and tended to work in isolated areas. “It’s better for the government to legalise prostitution and tax…
A legal practitioner is calling for the legalization of of prostitution and it’s taxation as against the regular arrest of the perpetrators of it.
He said fear of police meant sex workers had little time to negotiate services and tended to work in isolated areas.
“It’s better for the government to legalise prostitution and tax the prostitutes than to allow police arrest them,” he stated.
Speaking at a workshop organised by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) on Thursday, May 23, 2019, Martin Kpebu noted that those into prostitution face a lot of economic challenges hence their decision to take up the social vices.
He added that the grants received from Dutch includes taxes taken from Prostitutes.
“If government is against the legalisation of prostitution, I don’t see the need to take grants or loans from the Dutch government after it has collected taxes from prostitutes.”
“What two adult people do in private, why is it another man’s business?” he queried.
“You think in 20 years we would not have legalized same sex marriage; we can’t stand the force. It’s just a question of time,” he said.
The bigger question left unanswered is when and how will this be done in a developing country like Ghana?
