Uganda, Kampala. – News Of The South) – At least 250 female Ugandans are detained in various camps in Kuwait after they managed to escape from homes where they faced abuse.
Jobs in supermarkets had been promised to the girls when they were lured but they found themselves enslaved as maids in people’s homes.
The numbers of the detained were confirmed by the detainees as well as parents.
Relatives of the detained girls who met the Head of the Anti-Human Trafficking Desk, Mr Moses Binoga, said their daughters called them while they were still at the reception centre before they were transferred to another facility.
Mr Robert Kunonya, a father of a 19-year-old detainee, said his daughter called him Tuesday morning saying 250 Ugandan girls were going to be transferred (Wednesday).
“She told me if I don’t send money to help her return, she will be part of the 250 Ugandans who will be transferred to another facility,” Mr Kunonya said while at the ministry of Internal Affairs yesterday.
Mr Binoga couldn’t confirm the number of girls trafficked since Uganda has no embassy in Kuwait, but he said the country has the biggest number of Ugandan victims of trafficking.
“I am going to inform our Foreign Affairs ministry to liaise with our missions in the Middle East to ensure they find out the whereabouts of these women,” he said.
One victim, who returned recently, explained how she was promised to work in a supermarket but when she reached Kuwait, she was taken to a home to work as a maid. “I was abused and one time cut with a knife because I failed to carry a bag of sugar to another floor,” the 20-year old woman said.
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