Popular Imam Bakawsu Fofana has called on Imams Chebo Cham and Baba Leigh to end any feud between them as he chipped into a sex workers controversy that has gripped the nation.
Imam Baba Leigh had suggested sex workers deserved support from the government because they are humans. Imam Chebo Cham then tackled him over his comments
Imam Bakawsu Fofana says it’s too graphic to call women sex workers – that it would have been sufficient to call them unmarried women.
“The prophet said it’s jihad to help a woman who’s not married. Please shield women [from embarassment]. This name [sex worker] is too graphic. They said they want to help adulterers, prostitutes. That name is too graphic,” Imam Fofana said in an audio message.
He added: “But you see the prophet called them women that are not married. They prophet knows how to speak. Because you see an unmarried women, two things could affect her: hunger and sexual starvation.
“If she’s hunger could lead her into adultery to survive or she could get starved sexually and gets sick. So you should help women that are not married. If they’d said they are going to help women that are not married would have been better. But it’s too graphic to say ‘sex workers come, we will give you money’. What I want to tell the government is empower power so that can get off the streets, they can stop sex work.”
