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HUNDREDS OF PROSTITUTES have flocked to a Kenyan town ahead of the beatification ceremony of an Italian nun, a key step towards sainthood.
“Who doesn’t need body gratification? By the way, even Christians need sex,” one woman told The Star newspaper, in the central Kenyan town of Nyeri.
“It’s our turn to eat,” she said, using a popular Kenyan idiom meaning to make money. “We are waiting for those international visitors.”
Tens of thousands are expected to attend the Roman Catholic beatification ceremony on May 23 in Nyeri, a town some 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
Irene Stefani, who died in Kenya of the plague in 1930, was an Italian member of the Consolata Missionary Sisters, helped the wounded in Kenya and Tanzania during World War I. A trained nurse, she was much loved by the people of the Nyeri district, who called her “mother of mercy.”
The newspaper said it had carried out a “spot check” and found that “hotels are almost fully booked by the women.”
“The sex workers have already booked hotels for two weeks in advance,” The Star reported, saying the women had flocked from across the country to attend pre-beatification evening events.
Senior local government official John Marete admitted the town was full of “new faces”, while a Catholic priest in the town urged people “not to be diverted by earthly things.”
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Disgraceful, can they do anything right?
@Eddie O’Neill: No.. they absolutely can NOT do ANYTHING right.
@Eddie O’Neill: and it seems it was the rookiest of rooky mistakes too. An average 12 year old knows how to hide email addresses.
Waiting for the (Learn Lessons) excuse now to come next. Unbelievable but not shocked by this
Innocent women and children reall don’t stand a chance in the country!
If they sat down and planned it they really couldn’t mess up this entire mother and baby homes issue any more than they actually have,
And of course it’s a system’s error. So no one held accountable yet again. I would love to know who has the final say in outsourcing these contracts.
Do we not have enough people working in these Departments eg Health, Children etc to handle things in-house? Why do we ALWAYS have to out-source everything? Is it so that no individual can be held to account for these cock ups? This Govt has to be the most inept ever.
@Jane Waters: yes John. It’s so they can land the blame on the external party. Highly frustrating!
I assume they Cc’d instead of Bcc’d in the email invite.
Another article a few days ago people were complaining that the departments subject access request SARS looking for ID of those requesting information was to intrusive and cumbersome for those applying who will be elderly, and now there are complaints that there was a data breach email addresses were seen at an invitation to a meeting that members of the public could attend?
Complaints it’s too strict and then not strict enough?
Ffs. Are we really surprised by the incompetence
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