More Ugandan Girls Doing Sex Slaveryin India – Envoy

2 NEW VISION, Thursday, October 4, 2012 NATIONAL NEWS NRM mourns More Ugandan girls doing Bitamazire’s husband By JOYCE NAMUTEBI AND CECILIA OKOTH The National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has extended sex slavery in India – envoy condolences to former education minister Namirembe Bitamazire for the loss of her husband, Alfonse By SEKANJAKO AND AGENCIES they pay back for the costs. Then, some time now. The parliamentary Kasaija Bitamazire. He succumbed to they are left to fend for themselves, committee on equal opportunities prostate cancer at Nsambya Hospital The number of young Ugandan girls leading to their suffering here.” visited different Asian countries to on Tuesday at 71 years of age. being trafficked to Asian countries Facts Carol Lwabi, the First Secretary of know the extent of the problem, but “We join the family at this difficult under the guise of green pastures Uganda High Commission in India, it is yet to table their report to Parlia- time and pray for the soul of the only to be turned into sex slaves is We need to know where told Uganda’s delegation that after ment. deceased,” NRM vice-chairman, on the increase and needs urgent our people have gone, who is holding onto the girls’ passports, However, Madhvani said as they Moses Kigongo said in a condolence government intervention, MPs have employing them and how they they (traffickers) tell them not to re- wait for the Government’s interven- message read to mourners during been told. are being treated, said Kadaga port to the mission, threatening that tion, they have become strict on the a requiem mass at Our Lady of Mt. The revelation was made by Ugan- they would be arrested. matter by scrutinising people before Carmel, Kansanga Catholic Parish da’s High Commissioner to India and “We do not have access to the girls giving out visas. yesterday. eight other neighbouring countries ficked into India, Singapore and because we can’t go where they stay. Commenting on the matter, Kadaga Bitamazire was born in 1940 in ,Nimisha Madhvani. other countries by businessmen who Very few of them know that they can asked the Government to work out Kibwoona, Masindi to Nasanairi Ka- This was during a briefing to promise them “good jobs” and many come to the mission and get help,” modalities of formally exporting saija Ateenyi and Eridwina Mukaka Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Ka- later come with complaints to the she said, adding: “We can’t go out labour. “We need to institute Amooti Kiiza. He attended Nyami- daga and the Parliamentary Com- embassy after disillusionment. there to arrest people because we measures where we can officially gisa Primary School and later studied mission on their arrival in India on “They bring them here and hold are not here to arrest them. We have export labour. We may not be able teaching at the teacher’s college in Monday. their passports until they pay back helped four girls who we have sent to eradicate trafficking, but we can Butiti, Fort Portal. They are there to attend the World their airfare money they used to trav- back to Uganda, but I have no idea bring it down. We need to know He came to Kampala in 1965 and Inter-Parliamentary Union female el,” said Nimisha. how many they are out there.” where our people have gone, who worked as an accountant at the Brit- speakers’ conference. She added: “The girls are then The issue of trafficking of girls for is employing them and how they are ish Tutorial College and Uganda Gar- She said the young girls are traf- “lent” to Nigerians to have sex as sex slavery has been going on for being treated,” she said. ment Industry, among other jobs. Jazz stars arrive cancer concert 2 PICTURE BY KAKEBE MUBIRU minute catch-up CLARIFICATION Kampala city Sir Edward Mutesa did not rule Uganda as it could have been implied in an answer to the Jubilee Quiz and parts of published on Tuesday. Mutesa reigned as a non- western Uganda yes- executive president of Uganda from 1963-1966. During this period, the Prime Minister, Milton Obote, had the terday experienced executive powers. a mild earth tremor shortly after 7:00pm. The tremor, whose magnitude was not readily available, also rumbled parts of Fort Portal. This was the third tremor to be experienced in Fort Portal over the last three days, according to the Police. TODAY IN HISTORY: Uganda’s western Marion Meadows, Gerald Albright and Regina Belle the reknown international Jazz stars soon after a press conference at Serena Hotel in Kampala yesterday. They will arm of the rift valley perform at Annual Jazz event at Serena Hotel Tomorrow. Part of the proceeds from OCTOBER 4, 1962 is prone to earth- the fifth annual Nile Gold Jazz Safari, will go towards supporting the cancer ward at Prime Minister Milton Obote announced quakes and tremors, St. Francis Hospital, Nsambya. Previous performers were Jonathan Butler, Howard that most people serving prison sentences in with epicenters Hewett and Albright. Albright is returning for the third time since the event started in Uganda would get their sentenced reduced on 2008. His daughter, Selina, is among the other supporting artistes, including Rhonda Independence Day under the Act of Grace. around Lake Albert. Smith, Ricky Del Monte, Tony Momrelle and Mo Pleasure. Tickets go for sh150,000. All prisoners sentenced in connection with the 1960 Bukedi riots or with the Buganda trade boycott and other political offences were to be Kabale demands compensation over National Bank of Commerce released on October 9, the day Uganda would attain her independence. By SAMUEL SANYA, D. MAGARA chairman in Kabale, said the minority and each bought 10 shares in the bank be- Most prisoners, with three months to a year’s AND GOODLUCK MUSINGUZI shareholders of the defunct bank had pe- tween 1994 and 1998. remission and all women prisoners who were titioned the Bank of Uganda and are yet to Mercy Kyomuhendo, a resident of Kabale, serving three years or less for offences outside the The recent closure of the National Bank of receive a response. said Crane Bank had restricted them, de- Commerce (NBC) has left many residents “Customers have received their money, manding that each former NBC client Penal Code, were to be released. More than 2,500 of Kabale district disillusioned, with some but what about money for shareholders? maintains sh25,000 on their accounts. prisoners were to benefit from the scheme and a demanding a refund of their share capital We invested this money on behalf of the “Does this mean they bought each ac- similar arrangement was announced in Buganda from Bank of Uganda. people of Kabale?” he said. count at sh25,000? We need explanations and the Native Authority prisons. Enock Kazooba, the Rubaya sub-county Kazooba said Kabale has 25 sub-counties because this is outright theft,” she said. .

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