British sex workers took to the streets demanding for justice over the murder of Agnes Wanjiru by a British soldier in 2012.
The sex workers from three organizations namely, Sex Workers Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM), English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) and the All African Women’s Group (AAWG), staged their demos outside the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence headquarters.
“Agnes Wanjiru was a mother supporting a young child. Her heartbreaking death is a stark reminder that our lives do not matter to those in power. We are here to demand justice for Wanjiru, for the British soldier to be extradited in Kenya to face the Kenyan court and for the decriminalization of sex work,” a protester said.
The protestors were armed with posters, placards and umbrellas of Agnes with some labelled, ‘They are literally getting away with murder’, ‘Don’t put us on the street, it’s 10x more dangerous’, ‘Tunataka haki ya Agnes Wanjiru sasa!’ etc.
They were chanting, ‘No bad woman, just bad laws’ and ‘outlaw poverty not prostitution’.
Last months, Defence CS Eugene Wamalwa said that the soldier who was identified as Soldier Y would be extradited to Kenya to face murder charges and that both the Kenyan and British countries were carrying out a joint investigation to ensure that the murderers are brought to book.
Wanjiru was a member of a local sex workers’ organisation known as Laikipia Peer Educators. She murdered in 2012 by the soldier in Nanyuki.
Her body was found inside a septic tank at the Lions Court hotel two months after her disappearance in March 2012.
By the time her body was found, the soldiers from the British Army Training Unit Kenya that were at the hotel had already left for the United Kingdom.
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