KAMPALA, UGANDA: Five directors of labour export agency, Nile Treasure Gate Company Limited have been remanded to prison for trafficking a Ugandan National, Judith Nakintu to Saudi Arabia where she allegedly lost her kidney from.
The five directors include; Kato Abubaker Suleiman, Muhammad Mariam, Sulamah Muhammed, Ali Hassan, Jennifer Nalunga Milly.
The directors have been charged with three counts of Aggravated Trafficking in persons contrary to section 3 (1) (a), 4 (I) of the prevention of trafficking in persons Act, 2009.
Prosecution avers that the five and others at large between December 2019 and October 2021, between Kampala district, Uganda, and Saudi Arabia, organized, facilitated, or made preparations for sending to, receiving, or confining Nakintu Judith by means of fraud or deceit or abuse of power of the position of vulnerability for purpose of removal of body parts or organs
Prosecution says that the victim suffered mutilation or a life-threatening illness and the offense was committed by a syndicate.
The five allegedly conspired and unlawfully removed the right kidney of Judith Nakintu, a lady they had taken for labor in Saudi Arabia. The five have been remanded till 14/3/22.
Judith Nakintu left Uganda to work as a maid in Saudi Arabia on 12/12/2019 via recruitment agency Nile Treasure Gate Co Ltd. She was lured to the hospital under the guise of testing for Covid-19 but she underwent involuntary surgery that led to her disability.
Contrary to the report from Mulago Hospital, a private Medical Report showed that Nakintu’s right kidney is missing.
Migrant Workers’ Voice raised concerns about how Ugandans are being exploited by Middle East traffickers who trade in body parts.
Recently, a dismembered body of Milly Namazzi (Age 26) was returned to Uganda on Jan 17 with her private parts removed. She had been subjected to multiple severe beatings. Milly had gone to Saudi Arabia to work as a maid via Dreams Connect Ltd and was killed in Egypt on December 5, 2022.
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