Nabbanja Shadia, a Makerere University graduate who left Uganda for Qatar in pursuit for greener pastures today succumbed to injuries allegedly inflicted onto her by the members of the family she was working for as a house help.
According to Shadia’s pal’s account of events, the deceased was fighting back as one of the family members tried to rape her. “First the son in the family wanted to use her and she said no, and then the father tried too. When she rejected them, the husband told the wife that Shadia wanted to have an affair with him. He lied because Shadia never wanted any sexual relations with the men in the family. That’s when the mistreatment begun which also included rape. She tried to reachout for help on facebook because she got sick. She also told some of her friends about what was going on and needed help to escape. Before she could be helped she was taken to hospital where she died.”
She further appeals to the Government to help find justice for Shadia. Many Ugandans continue to suffer in the hands of their bosses in the Middle East where they go for ‘kyeeyo’.
Uganda announced that it had stopped sending housemaids to Saudi Arabia, after six housemaids were brutally tortured in the said country.
Wilson Muruli Mukasa, minister of gender, labour and social development, said that the government continued “to receive information of our people being subjected to inhumane treatment at the hands of the employers in Saudi Arabia”.
“The ban will remain in force until the conditions are deemed fitting,” Mukasa said in a letter sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
MAY SHADIA’S SOUL REST IN ETERNAL PEACE.
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