Six Directors of of Nile Gate Treasure Company, an external labour Export Agency charged with Trafficking a one Judith Nakintu to Saudi Arabia to have one of her Kidneys removed have returned before the Nakawa Magistrate Court.
The six are charged with Trafficking a one Nakintu Judith to Saudi Arabia by falsely pretending that they were going to find her employment while knowing that she was being Trafficked for her organs(Kidneys).
They include Kato Abubaker Suleiman, Ali Hassan, Jennifer Naluga Milly,Sulamah Muhammad, and Muhammad Mariam Muhammad.
These are charged with three counts of Aggravated Trafficking in persons contrary to section 3(a),4(1)of the prevention of Trafficking in persons Act,2009.
They appeared before grade one magistrate Ponsiono Odwori for further mention of their case.
Prosecution led by Doreen Elima asked court for more time to finalise their ongoing police investigations and the case was adjourned to the 6th of June to allow police conclude it's investigations.
Prosecution says that the suspects and other still at large between December 2019 and October 2021,between Kampala district, 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 postion of vulnerability for purpose of removal of body parts or organs.
Court Evidence further shows that on the 12th of December 2019, the said Company recruited the victim to travel to Saudi Arabia to work as a maid and that while in Saudi Arabia , she was lured to go for COVId-19 testing at King Fahad Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi and when she work up, she had been involuntarily operated upon and a medical report from a private hospital in Uganda showed that her right Kidney was missing.
The victim who is now disabled and can neither sit, walk,talk or eat by herself as a result of the said botched operation was left with severe life threatening injuries and a mutilated body.
Meanwhile, some reports indicate that a Court in Saudi Arabia awarded the victim 165 million shillings in compensation over her alleged stolen kidney.
It is said that her employer Saad Dhafer Mohamed Al-Asmari will have to pay 271,450 Riyals (about Tsh 165 million) to her in compensation.
