{"id":820903,"date":"2025-01-18T10:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T16:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/davido-under-fire-for-supporting-belgiums-pro-sex-worker-law\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T10:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T16:13:19","slug":"davido-under-fire-for-supporting-belgiums-pro-sex-worker-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/davido-under-fire-for-supporting-belgiums-pro-sex-worker-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Davido under fire for supporting Belgium&#8217;s pro-sex worker law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<header id=\"site-header\"><\/header>\n<div><main><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/notjustok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Davido-2-edited.png\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Afrobeat sensation Davido has sparked controversy after publicly endorsing Belgium&#8217;s new law providing unprecedented benefits to sex workers. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The law, aimed at improving the welfare of sex workers, grants them access to health insurance, sick leave, pensions, maternity leave, safety protection, and formal employment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/notjustok.com\/news\/davido-reveals-how-don-jazzy-dbanj-as-inspired-his-career\/\">Davido&#8217;s enthusiastic response to the law<\/a>, describing it as <em>&#8220;groundbreaking,&#8221;<\/em> drew sharp criticism from followers. Many accused the married musician of hypocrisy, alleging that he frequents sex workers despite his marital status.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash comes on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/notjustok.com\/news\/davido-sells-out-amsterdams-ziggo-dome-arena-with-electrifying-performance\/\">Davido&#8217;s recent performance abroad<\/a>, which was electrifying.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Groundbreaking move by ???????? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xokpPeMXzz\">https:\/\/t.co\/xokpPeMXzz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Davido ???????? (@davido) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davido\/status\/1863546771701448946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Fans&#8217; comments about Davido&#8217;s response:<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Man has now left music to start advocating for obough ????<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 STARBOY GUCCI???????????? (@GucciStarboi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GucciStarboi\/status\/1863548075186262264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And you never make any Belgium<br \/>Charts and you no get any certification in Belgium before????????????????????????<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Big Wizard ???? (@bigwizarrdd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bigwizarrdd\/status\/1863547355527614688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Davido in Belgium ???????? <\/p>\n<p>Album cert \u274c<br \/>Song cert \u274c<br \/>Albums chart entry \u274c<br \/>Songs chart entry \u274c<\/p>\n<p>????????????????<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Jahboy (@jah_boy01) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jah_boy01\/status\/1863547236040262053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why do you always want to jump into every conversation like a little child? This your mumu is getting out of hands<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oladele A ???????? ???????? (@Qladele) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Qladele\/status\/1863548705850155347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bro you be married man o see as you Dey move<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 honest30bgfan (@honest30bgfan_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/honest30bgfan_\/status\/1863549578315751562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You visited Belgium and the government decided to give sex workers free access to health insurance and pensions.<br \/>Chioma must lucky to have lucky man like you.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kabbah???? (@iam_kabbah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iam_kabbah\/status\/1863547420157591626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Get updates as they drop via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NOTJUSTOK\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notjustokpage\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n<div id=\"pop-up-newsletter\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"pop-up-close\" src=\"http:\/\/notjustok.com\/wp-content\/themes\/notjustok\/assets\/images\/close.png\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p> Elizabeth Clifford <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/notjustok.com\/news\/davido-under-fire-for-supporting-belgiums-pro-sex-worker-law\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrobeat sensation Davido has sparked controversy after publicly endorsing Belgium&#8217;s new law providing unprecedented benefits to sex workers. The law, aimed at improving the welfare of sex workers, grants them access to health insurance, sick leave, pensions, maternity leave, safety protection, and formal employment. Davido&#8217;s enthusiastic response to the law, describing it as &#8220;groundbreaking,&#8221; drew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":820904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96767,4149],"tags":[71370,7339],"class_list":{"0":"post-820903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-davido","8":"category-supporting","9":"tag-davido","10":"tag-supporting"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}