Lulu Jemimah (Monitor)
Barely two weeks out on bail, Arua Municipality MP Akbar Godi, changes cars – at least four times a day. Living an apparent shady life, he takes refuge in hotels, different residences and has converted his car into a mobile lodge – at least by his accounts for safety reasons. Everywhere he moves, he has become a recognisable face, suffering the torture of loss of privacy like a celebrity.
Daily Monitor’s Lulu Jemimah caught up with the MP, who is facing charges of murdering his wife Rehema Caesar, for an interview on Tuesday. Below is the first instalment of a two-part series of the legislator’s riveting account of life at Upper Luzira Maximum Security Prison. The second part will run in tomorrow’s edition.
Godi’s tale
I am a Muslim but back in Arua I attend both the Catholic and Protestant churches. In prison, people hold intensive prayers like there is no tomorrow and you are living your last day. There is so much that goes on inside those walls and I guess the hope and faith is what keeps the inmates sane.
I have followed these sodomy stories in churches and I wonder why it got so much coverage yet sodomy, sometimes voluntary but usually coerced and poverty-induced in prisons, goes unmentioned. I don’t know the causes of it outside but in prison I did.
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