How I Fought To Ban Child Sacrifice In Uganda
As this was on youtube and hence publically insecure as it is subject to googles evil whim as to whether it remains viewable I have transferred it to Odysee and added the transcript.
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Transcript
there was a witch doctor who had laid
0:02this child down
0:03and put herbs all around her body and
0:06was about to cut her
0:09before the security guard
0:13found her and rescued her and brought
0:15her to this baby's home where i was
0:17working
0:18[Music]
0:28i knew quite early on that i wanted to
0:31work in television
0:32i wanted to be a video editor i realized
0:35that in my teens
0:36and i put everything i possibly could
0:38into making
0:39that happen i've worked on love island
0:42i'm a celebrity
0:43get me out of here strictly come dancing
0:46x factor
0:46the voice made in chelsea uh
0:50what else too hot to handle um
0:53and four in a bed which is possibly one
0:56of my favorite shows
0:58what was it that inspired you to go from
1:00being a video editor to leaving that
1:01kind of pie
1:02as much as i enjoyed my job i felt just
1:04a little disillusioned by it and felt
1:06that i needed
1:07a bit of a shake-up and a friend of mine
1:10suggested that i contact
1:12a british lady who set up an ngo
1:16in uganda that looked after abandoned
1:18babies
1:20periodically she needed media volunteers
1:22to go over and make
1:23films for change and i just thought yeah
1:26why not
1:26so i got in touch with her and the next
1:29thing i knew
1:30like two months later i found myself on
1:32a plane
1:33to kampala uganda
1:37it kampala can seem really kind of
1:39glitzy and cosmic
1:41cosmopolitan and fun but you scratch the
1:44surface
1:45and there is there is a lot of sadness
1:49there and a lot of that comes from
1:51poverty
1:51one of the ngo representatives was
1:54telling me about
1:55some of the children in the baby's home
1:57where i'd be working
1:58and she told me about this little girl
2:02who had survived child sacrifice
2:05and i was like
2:08what you know i i'm part nigerian
2:12um you know so i've heard about
2:14witchcraft and juju and witch doctors
2:17and
2:18you know my grandfather was a
2:19traditional healer so i've grown up
2:21hearing about the occult
2:23but never had i heard of child sacrifice
2:27the very first day i sought her out and
2:30she was a shadow she would cower in the
2:34corner of the room
2:35not look at anybody visibly scarred and
2:40and just truly traumatized she was
2:44found she was found on a construction
2:47site
2:48by a security guard there was a witch
2:51doctor who had laid this child down
2:54and put herbs all around her body and
2:56was about to cut her
2:59before the security guard
3:04found her and rescued her and brought
3:05her to this baby's home where i was
3:08working
3:09and she'd been there about six months
3:10before before i arrived
3:15sorry it's okay
3:22she's really special to me yeah
3:25so i'd heard about this practice then
3:28met this girl
3:29fallen head over heels in love with her
3:32and
3:33researched i wanted to know what there
3:35was to know
3:37about it so i read articles i spoke to
3:40people
3:41i spoke to locals and very quickly
3:45recognized that this was a this was a
3:47real problem this was prevalent
3:49in uganda and there was always somebody
3:53who knew someone who had
3:55had their child sacrificed or you know
3:58it was very much
4:00a taboo subject but people
4:03were aware of it happening
4:06why do people do child sacrifices what
4:09is the reason for that
4:10there is a widespread belief in not just
4:13uganda
4:14that when you sacrifice a child it will
4:16lead to
4:17riches to prosperity power
4:21so people will
4:24visit a witch doctor with an issue
4:28and
4:33depending on what the issue is the witch
4:35doctor will say okay
4:36you go and bring me the head of a child
4:38you go and bring me the genitals of a
4:39boy
4:40you go and bring me the tongue of a girl
4:42and you'll have what you need
4:44you spoke to other survivors can you
4:46give us another survivor story
4:49so there was one boy who
4:54who had been lured out
4:57by his uncle to go in
5:01uh to go and buy some soap
5:04on the way they had picked up this
5:05little boy's twin brother
5:07so the two of them uh went off to buy
5:09soap with their uncle
5:11and the uncle led them into a bush
5:15and and
5:20cut off the head of one of the twin boys
5:23while the other one watched and then
5:25removed his genitals
5:27and left him in a pool of his own blood
5:33and the other boy ran away and was able
5:37to
5:38explain what happened to his family
5:41um yeah
5:45and uh the uncle
5:48was burnt alive by the mob justice
5:53there was not an opportunity for it to
5:55go to trial because of that
5:57often the children are they're
6:00sacrificed when they're conscious when
6:02they're alive they're not given
6:04chloroform they're not knocked over
6:05their head they are conscious and they
6:07feel everything
6:08it's not quick um it's incredibly
6:12painful
6:13and this boy watched his brother go
6:16through that
6:17and that is one of many many many
6:20stories that i've heard
6:21like that i thought i had a duty to
6:26do everything in my power i just felt
6:28like i had no other choice and this was
6:30something that in a heartbeat i wanted
6:32to dedicate the rest of my life to
6:34to stopping and
6:38you know i feel that passions they
6:41choose you
6:42i think to a certain extent i think it
6:44was a
6:46physical emotional um
6:50kind of kinship that i had with this
6:52subject and
6:54i think anybody in my shoes would have
6:56done exactly the same
6:58you know i was absolutely dogged about
7:00this and
7:02i was stunned to the core that this was
7:04happening and
7:07i was willing to do anything and
7:09everything in my power to help these
7:11children and to ensure that they had
7:16a bright future to grow up in
7:19and i met the deputy speaker who
7:22you know said look if you're interested
7:24you know we do have gaps in legislation
7:27and we could probably benefit from you
7:30know specific legislation you know but
7:32it's going to cost money it's going to
7:34you know take a lot of time and barbara
7:36and i was just like yep yep yep yep yep
7:38sign me up
7:38i'm i'm your i'm your woman so i had no
7:42real
7:43understanding of what i was doing but i
7:44knew what the milestones were
7:47you know it's to find a legislator
7:50finish
7:50you know have a draft of a bill present
7:52it to the speaker and then they find an
7:54mp to present the bill and
7:56you know the journey probably begins
7:57there why did you have to introduce the
8:00bill was child sacrifice not illegal at
8:02this point
8:03so obviously it's it's illegal to
8:06sacrifice a child but
8:07defendants were tried under the penal
8:09code um
8:11or other such laws which didn't carry um
8:14particularly strong sentences there was
8:16no definition
8:17of child sacrifice you know so
8:21you know cases where a child was
8:24abducted and for example kept in a
8:27shrine
8:28and gradually sacrificed that's a that's
8:30a case i have heard of
8:32they would be they would be charged with
8:34kidnap and torture which would not carry
8:37the
8:37the an adequate sentence i
8:40spent the next or seven years actually
8:44going back and forth so i would go back
8:46to london earn enough money
8:48then fly back out to uganda mobilize mps
8:52let them know that there is a private
8:54bill that is going to be introduced
8:55are you interested in supporting this
8:59and very very slowly i built up a team
9:02and a network
9:03of people who would then you know
9:07later uh come to support me on
9:09parliament floor
9:10when this bill was introduced but there
9:12were a point where you felt like
9:15giving up
9:19yes um
9:22yeah um often you know i there there are
9:26challenges when it comes to
9:27something like this introducing
9:29something like this i was
9:31very much alone for the first part of
9:34this journey
9:35and child sacrifice is a nasty business
9:38more than once i've been threatened
9:42i've been told that if i continue
9:44terrible things will happen
9:46there will be consequences i've had
9:48people turn up to my house asking where
9:49i
9:50was you know so i was scared
9:54a lot of the time but i think
10:01i i made a pact with myself that
10:08their lives are worth more than mine
10:13and that this was something that i'd
10:14pledged to stop no matter what
10:17stop as much as i could
10:20to giving up i thought about it but
10:23realized that i
10:24i physically i couldn't
10:29i didn't want to think about whether or
10:31not this bill would pass
10:33but it was the timing of it
10:36you know like we were just approaching
10:38the the end of the 10th parliament in
10:40uganda
10:41and this was the tuesday and
10:44if the bill hadn't passed by the friday
10:47we'd have had to start all over again
10:50and that would have meant another not
10:52seven years but at least another two
10:54three years i would have had it in me
10:55but it would have felt like a real
10:56struggle
10:58um so we passed it in record time and
11:01i just remember
11:04we were told that it was unlikely to
11:06pass that day
11:08and we knew if it was going to pass it
11:09was going to be that week
11:11but i remember getting a call on the
11:12tuesday on the fourth
11:14of may 2021 um from my
11:18you know uh colleague in parliament and
11:22this is at 10 o'clock and i was sitting
11:23on my sofa in my pyjamas thinking i've
11:25got a day off
11:26and he was like annie we were presenting
11:30the bill
11:30at half past 10 and i looked my watch
11:32and it was 10 o'clock and i was like
11:34can i swear what the [ __ ] got on a boda
11:37boda which is like a motorcycle taxi
11:39was calling people on the way calling
11:41the mp couldn't get hold of anybody
11:43and i said to the driver i was just like
11:44you need to leg
11:46we need to be there in record time it's
11:48like a half an hour journey we got there
11:50in 10 minutes
11:51i got there with about two minutes to
11:53spare
11:54um you know it was meant to be i was
11:57meant to be there
11:58and i'm just so thrilled that i was and
12:01uh i sat there shaking
12:03uh for i don't know two hours and
12:07yeah and um tonight i don't know how to
12:11put into words what i felt when it
12:13passed really
12:14i couldn't believe it i looked at my
12:16colleague the same one who who called me
12:18at 10 o'clock saying that the bill was
12:20going to be read
12:21and he just looked at me and he was like
12:23it
12:24it just passed
12:29and i just i lost it i completely
12:33lost it
12:37you know something that i had been along
12:39with it
12:40my team fighting for for
12:44seven years it happened
12:49i will never forget that feeling
12:56in a weird way i miss it i miss having a
12:58purpose
13:01like it's like 80 percent pride and
13:04relief and
13:05joy and all of that but you know
13:08i grew up with this bill you know i
13:11became a woman
13:12working on this and it was a huge huge
13:16part of me
13:18and it was gone like that so in a weird
13:20i know that sounds messed up but
13:23um there was sadness weirdly attached to
13:26that
13:27because my baby it you know
13:31it had grown it had grown up and
13:35was doing what it was meant to do
13:38and i just think
13:41[Music]
13:43i never growing up felt that i was
13:46capable really of doing
13:48that much or having that much of an
13:50impact on the world and
13:52in that moment i just
13:56felt like i was enough
14:00and that's something that i along with
14:01the people that i work with had done
14:04had really made a difference in the
14:05world and had
14:08saved the lives of so many vulnerable
14:09children
14:11and i'm just so proud of it
14:16[Music]
14:28that's
14:33[Music]
14:44and i remember unlocking my phone and
14:46what's up was on and i kind of
14:47closed what's up and clicked on the
14:49camera and the second i clicked the film
14:53i saw what i guess the whole world saw
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