Girls said to have run away from homes following abuse.
At least 250 female Ugandans are said to be detained in different camps in Kuwait after they run away from homes where they were being abused. Both rescued females and parents of those still detained in Kuwait confirmed the number.
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 yesterday morning saying 250 Ugandan girls were going to be transferred today (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.
Most of the trafficked girls were promised juicy jobs in supermarkets but ended up enslaved in homes as maids.
One victim, who returned recently, told the Daily Monitor that 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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