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Commotion as Maama Fiina, Full Figure carry sh8m to New Taxi Park
Added 7th June 2020 05:12 PM
Many travellers who turned up in the park on Thursday when the
ban on public transport was lifted got stranded when they did not find
any taxis connecting to their destinations, forcing them to sleep in the
open.
Jeniffer Nakangu alias Full Figure and Maama Fiina being
surrounded by youth after they displayed the money. (Photo by Patrick
Kibirango)
KAMPALA - There was commotion in the New Park on Saturday when Sylvia Namutebi aka Maama Fiina and Jeniffer Nakangu aka Full Figure arrived with a parcel of money, offering to clear transport fares for upcountry travellers who were stranded.
Many travellers who turned up in the park on Thursday when the ban on public transport was lifted got stranded when they did not find any taxis connecting to their destinations, forcing them to sleep in the open.
By Friday, children were crying for food and water while several pregnant women were seen sleeping on the pavements, unable to buy food. Others said they were stuck after finding that the transport fares to their destinations had been doubled.
Namutebi said she donated sh8.3m to pay for transport and buy food and drinks for people who had spent a night in the taxi park, giving priority to pregnant women and mothers with children.
"I intended to help people who were not aware that there were no transport means in the taxi park, which had instead tarnished the name of President Museveni," she said, adding that hiking the prices had also made it difficult for people with limited money to pay for their journeys.
But after she left, taxi touts and youth overwhelmed Nakangu, demanding a share of the money. She tried to move around looking for more people stranded but her exercise was cut short after a swarm of youth followed her in large numbers, attracting more people.
She abandoned the exercise and was escorted to the Kampala City Council lockups but they attempted to force themselves inside the offices, forcing bouncers to repulse some of them.
Sulaiti Ssentongo, the ‘commander' of the taxi park tried in vain to block the youth, which ensued in a fistfight.
The number kept increasing until Nakangu moved out and dashed into her waiting car, which was pushed away. But a man walking on crutches again stood in her way, demanding for a share of the money. He did not move away until he was given some money.
She was escorted to her car and whisked away and she ‘threw' out some money to divert the fighting groups. By yesterday, the transport situation had returned to normal for long routes.
Child sacrifice for wealth and power in Uganda
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Added 15th June 2015 09:50 AM
Kanani and Sylvia, brother and sister aged nine and eight, were
grazing the family cattle in rural Uganda when they were approached by a
man they vaguely knew.
Sperito Bisekwa was angry. He accused the children of allowing their cows to eat his fodder and dragged them into a nearby forest. He attacked Kanani first. When the boy awoke he had a machete wound on his neck and his sister lay dead beside him.
"He grabbed me, strangled me and cut the back of my neck. When I came to, I realised my sister had been cut everywhere and she was dead," said Kanani.
Sylvia's young body had been gruesomely mutilated, her heart and clitoris cut out with a knife and taken for use in a witchdoctor's ritual, according to police.
Child sacrifice is a disturbing and widespread phenomenon in Uganda, serious enough that the government has established a special taskforce.
Activists say child sacrifice is not about tradition, but greed as people seek a quick route to wealth or power and with elections due in 2016 they worry killings are set to increase.
Anti-Human Sacrifice Task Force
Child sacrifice is "expected to rise", said Moses Binoga, head of Uganda's Anti-Human Sacrifice and Trafficking Task Force.
"Now we are going into elections, you will find that there are so many Ugandans, even high profile people, going to witch doctors' shrines," said Binoga.
"Some of them will be so desperate that if they're told to win a seat as an MP 'You must sacrifice a child', they'll do it."
Binoga said there have been five reported cases of child sacrifice so far this year and nine last year, although those numbers are disputed with activists saying the actual figures are higher.
A sharp rise in reported cases of child sacrifice in 2009 spurred the setting up of Kyampisi Childcare Ministries (KCM), a charity that works with survivors and victims' families.
Child protection officer Shelin Kasozi said the charity receives a few cases every month, stressing that the ritual murders "cut across all Ugandan society".
"The rich believe, 'If I sacrifice then my business will prosper'," she said. "The poor believe if they sacrifice a child they'll get rich."
Genitals hacked off
Kasozi pointed to the case of "very, very rich" Kampala businessman Godfrey Kato Kajubi who received a life sentence in 2012 for the ritual murder of a 12-year old boy who was beheaded and his genitals cut off.
Cases of children disappearing as they walk between school and home, or while fetching water from communal wells, can be found across Uganda. Sometimes their dismembered body parts are later discovered in forests or building sites.
Kidnappings and ritual murders are commonly organised by witch doctors whose clients pay for the killings in the belief that sacrificing a child will lead to wealth and prosperity, cure impotence or boost fertility.
Binoga said it was rare for the financiers to be prosecuted as witch doctors refused to name their clients.
Bisekwa pleaded guilty to the February 2013 attack in Nansaka village, 130 kilometres (80 miles) northwest of the capital Kampala. He is serving a 10-year sentence for the attempted murder of Kanani and awaits sentencing for Sylvia's murder.
He admits sending the body parts to his brother, a witch doctor, in exchange for the promise of $16,500 (14,600 euros).
The children's distraught father, Joseph Nankunda, wants his daughter's murderer to be given a death sentence.
"I want the death penalty for him, so he can be an example for the others," said the 48-year-old cattle farmer and father of six.
"My heart beats faster every time my children take a long time coming back. I live in fear every day," said Nankunda.
In February Uganda's government drafted a National Action Plan to stem the killings and has approved a bill regulating traditional healers, some of whom practice as witch doctors.
One reformed witch doctor is trying to convert others and persuade them to destroy their shrines.
But Binoga warned child sacrifice may not be easy to stamp out.
"It is based on the mindsets of beneficiaries of the crime," said Binoga. "As long as we have people who have such a belief, that practice will continue."
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