Ugandans reappear in Secunda Regional court on several charges

The four Ugandan nationals on trial for human trafficking, kidnapping, rape, attempted murder, illegal abortion of a baby and being in the country illegally, appeared in the Secunda Regional Court again on March 25.

Lydia ‘Sandra’ Mojemba (37), her boyfriend, Seyikabi Wilson (49), Jingo Wassua (38) and Njombozi Katiti (46) were arrested in July 2018 in Ogies after they abducted Mojemba’s niece in Secunda on July 13 of the same year.

Mojemba’s 23-year-old niece, also a Ugandan national, was lured by her aunt to come and work for her in SA.

Mojemba allegedly handed out pamphlets advertising services such as abortions and traditional healing.

When the niece was eight months pregnant, the aunt allegedly kidnapped her with the help of the other three accused and took her from her house in Secunda to Ogies.

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The niece was then locked in a room and forced to undergo several abortion attempts before her baby boy was stillborn. The infant’s body was dumped next to the train tracks near a bridge in Ogies.

The niece managed to escape from the room after a few days and fled to Secunda, where she told her boyfriend about her ordeal.

He contacted the police, who went to Ogies and arrested the four accused.

In the court proceedings last Monday, one of the accused, now representing himself, cross-examined one of the other accused.

The case was postponed to April 18 and 19.

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