Ugandan girls, beware the Dubai Porta Potty sextrap
I have just watched the BBC Africa Eye Documentary ‘Death in Dubai’ #DUBAIPORTAPOTTY in one sitting.
Whoever does not know what ‘porta potty’ is, ‘porta’ is a short version of the word ‘portable’ and ‘potty’ is a toddler’s toilet; so, it basically means being reduced to a human toilet, during a sex act that involves a man defecating and urinating on a woman, and the woman eating and drinking the man’s human waste!
The documentary exposes a Ugandan middle-aged man, Charles Mwesigwa aka Abbey, at the centre of a sex trafficking ring. One Ugandan sex trafficking survivor, Mia, testified in the documentary that, “Abbey has so many clients, they do weird stuff, but there is this one client, he poops on girls and tells them to eat the shit…he doesn’t care!”
Another Ugandan survivor, Lexi, (who was trafficked to the UAE in a different sex network) testified in the documentary that some of her male clients in Dubai used to call her a ‘black monkey.’
One male client in Dubai told Lexi, “We can buy ice-cream cones, shit in them and watch you eat.”
Sometimes these girls are gang raped. These dehumanising sex acts defile the body and can lead to severe depression. The young women who survive ‘porta potty’ end up losing their self-worth, are emotionally scarred-for-life and expose their bodies to the danger of catching various sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/Aids.
In the end, the money they earn from this sexual perversion just isn’t worth it. Though not mentioned in this particular documentary, stories have circulated for years about women in Dubai, after being blinded by luxury shopping sprees in Dubai malls, sign non-disclosure agreements and are thereafter coerced into having sex with dogs, for hefty sums of money!
All these degrading sex acts are usually recorded on film, because the sex trafficking world is closely linked with pornography. Other horror stories involve human organ harvesting.
Equally disconcerting is the revelation in this documentary that one of Mwesigwa’s recruiters, Bash Umar, can easily access the National Identification & Registration Authority (NIRA)’s database, which is a gross violation of data protection privacy laws.
Next to a photograph of a neat stack of sky blue Ugandan passports, a WhatsApp message on Umar’s status reads, ‘‘Hit me up if you need passports, National IDs, birth certificates, driving permits, Yellow Fever Card, Covid Certificate…’
If you are a young Ugandan lady thinking of going to Dubai to escape the poverty trap, be well advised that while Dubai is great for a holiday, if you intend to go there to work in a menial job (in a supermarket, hotel, restaurant cleaner or carwash), think twice before you jump on that plane, because such ‘jobs’ could be fronts to recruit you into a sex trafficking ring!
How well do you know the person who is taking you to Dubai? Have you prayed about it? You might find yourself indebted to your captor because of visa, air ticket and upkeep expenses and the only way you can repay him is by prostituting yourself, or else you might come back to Uganda in a coffin!
The documentary has the testimony of Troy, his former driver, to implicate Mwesigwa; plus Mwesigwa’s own admission, to an undercover BBC reporter, that he is a pimp who organises sex parties (orgies) with Ugandan girls at a price.
When Monica aka Mona, one of Mwesigwa’s former employees, died under mysterious circumstances, Mwesigwa said she wasn’t the first or last girl to die! The documentary ended with Mwesigwa recruiting a fresh batch of naïve, young girls from Uganda!
The BBC has done a brilliant job gathering incriminating evidence to expose this Ugandan sex ring. This documentary made many Ugandans on X (formerly Twitter) question why Mwesigwa wasn’t under arrest and sparked a huge debate in parliament.
Fortunately, Uganda Police have swung into action and are investigating this case and Interpol have issued a Red Notice against Mwesigwa. There is even an unconfirmed rumour that Mwesigwa has already been arrested by the Dubai Police Force. This modern-day slavery should stop, one and for all.
The writer works for Uganda Media Centre.
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