Will this story ever end?
Fly on the wall ---- By Mercy Nalugo
Oct 26, 2003
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There is more to the virgin Agoa girls than what meets the eye. These are young girls who were picked from all the districts in Uganda to work at Apparels Tri-Star Company in Bugolobi. They have now complained to Members of Parliament and to the Inspector General of Police Maj. Gen. Katumba Wamala that they are sexually starved and are denied the opportunity to meet their lovers. The cute babes now camped at Parliament cannot hide their sexual desires anymore. Some of the girls have openly said that unless they are allowed to visit their lovers they will not work again. The girls also say that some of their colleagues are married and are not allowed to meet their husbands. "Can you imagine we were recruited in July last year but have never met our men again. We are scared that other girls may grab them," one girl said. About 260 of the girls were on Tuesday sacked following a sit-down strike. They were striking to protest low salaries and poor working conditions. They complained of being forced to sleep in the same dormitories with men who have been recruited. "We could bear all the problems but they should know that we do have feelings like any other human beings and we are denied access to our lovers," one girl shouted as they were meeting several MPs at Parliament. She wondered how long they would keep starving since they work almost day and night. "But some of them are big girls who should be left to go for the football games. Their bosses should at least allow them to visit their boyfriends at night," one MP who did not want to be named said. Several women have complained of being starved sexually. Some two weeks ago women with disabilities complained that they are being starved by men simply because they are disabled. The Agoa girls say they are tortured, it looks like they urgently need counselling. They almost beat up a journalist who they suspected to be a sister to their Human Resource Manger a one Rose. They said that the journalist looked exactly like Rose. "Even the hair and the figure looks like that of Rose," the girls said. The journalist had to disappear immediately. Government officials are now working round the clock to diffuse the tension. Whether the girls return to work or not one is what we are all awaiting. |
© 2003 The Monitor Publications
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