In a country where drug-trafficking is illegal, you would not expect to find a shop advertising cocaine and marijuana or heroin. Lying on Lukuli-Konge road in Mubarak zone in Makindye division, Daido wondrously comes at you even if you are innocently wandering through this Kampala suburb.
It is June and I have come looking for this place I have heard many stories about. At the boda boda stage, where I ask for directions to Daido, I first get questions, and free advice.
At Daido, a small dark-skinned woman, dressed in a long skirt with a scarf on her head tells me she is in charge and takes me around. She shows me a filthy room, and throws in a possible clincher — that girls are available.
Married women, she clarifies, also engage in the sex trade. Some of the girls actually they are women, but, perhaps for commercial reasons, they are called girls reside here at the inn. These residents must be the ladies that are advertised on the signpost as available day and night. The mama in charge here, talks quite freely about the prostitution business at the inn.
Leaving Daido, my boda boda friends look at me curiously, as if searching for signs of satisfaction on my face.
