Court has ordered 88 mothers from Napak district who have been sending children to Kampala city streets to beg for money-to go back to their home district and engage in productive work.

The mothers appeared before the magistrate grade one at City hall in Kampala, where they were charged with one count of sending a child to beg or solicit for alms in a public place.

The offense is contrary to section 101) and (4) of the Kampala capital city authority-child protection ordinance 2022.

Aged between 20 and 35 years, the mothers were arrested with their children during the non-alignment movement summit which took place in Kampala in January 2024.

All the women pleaded guilty to the charge and requested court to help them go back to Napak district where they hail from.

With teary eyes, some of the mothers told the trial magistrate Edgar Karakire that they would never come back to Kampala streets, having suffered enough.

The magistrate sentenced them to community service in their places of abode in Napak for one month, where in case of default, they face imprisonment for one month.