It seems that regardless of health risks, Ugandans are tired of sleeping on pillow ‘mbisi’. Over 120 revelers were arrested at a strip club on Sunday at New Best Hotel.
Police raided a renowned stripper’s club at Busega, a suburb of Kampala, which has been operating since the lockdown was imposed nearly three weeks ago and arrested 120 revellers.
Mr Luke Owoyesigyire, the deputy spokesman of Kampala Metropolitan Police, yesterday said: “The managers of New Best Hotel and their clients decided to contravene the Ministry of Health directives to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Some of the suspects were having sex with people whose identity they didn’t know. We suspect they were sex workers and clients.”
New Best Hotel has for long been organising stripping events. Revellers would pay at least Shs20,000 for a show.
The entertainment centre also has lodges and drinking joints, which police said attracted sex workers and clients.ADVERTISEMENT
Mr Owoyesigyire said many suspects didn’t have facemasks and were not observing social distance which put them at the risk of contracting Covid-19.
The Director of Police Operations, Mr Edward Ochom, has ordered the Police Professional Standards Unit to investigate police commanders of Nateete for allowing suspended events to continue under their watch.
