Brendah Nakyejjo was speaking to Journalists from her hospital bed at Mulago hospital this week when she thanked God for saving her after a heavy fall off Makerere University’s Mitchell Hall last Saturday.
This unexpected incident at Uganda’s largest and third-oldest institution of higher learning left so many unanswered questions till Thursday when Brendah was closely out to danger to narrate her ordeal to police authorities and the Press.
Speaking to the Daily Monitor, the Second Year Drama and Film student says trouble started when her new found friend Jeremiah Mukyemu called her, requesting that she pays him a visit.
“It was at around 5pm, I was planning to go home for Easter. Jeremiah called me asking me to visit him, I told him I would be going home, so I would only spend about 15 minutes at his place, which he agreed,” she said
She told the newspaper that when she reached Mukyemu’s room on the third floor in Mitchell Hall of Residence and asked to leave after 30 minutes, Mukyemu – a Fourth Year student of Medicine and Surgery now under arrest – excused himself to go and pick something and locked her in the room.
“It was at around 5.30pm when I told him I was leaving. He locked me in the room and left, saying he would be back shortly, but he came back after an hour,” Nakyejjo stated.
Mr Mukyemu, Ms Nakyejjo adds, made the oscillations in and out of the room four times.
But it was on his third return that Nakyejjo raised an alarm. She told the Daily Monitor Mr Mukyemu tried to force her into a sexual intercourse but she resisted.
“This is when she cried out for help. The tormentor however increased the volume of the music that was playing off his radio so much so that it was impossible to hear anything happening outside.”
After several failed attempts to escape from the room, Nakyejjo , on seeing Mukyemu leave the room again, this time threatening “to do something wrong” upon return, made the decision that nearly ended her life.
She told the reporter she could not imagine living with the psychological torture of rape and looked for any exit.
“When he left the room after threatening me, I screamed and no one came to help me, I decided to jump, of course with the hope that I would not end up like this (bed ridden),” Ms Nakyejjo said.
Although he attained severe injuries, “Nakyejjo says she was happy she was not raped and thanks God she is still alive, expressing faith that she will go back to Drama school and will hopefully be able to sing, dance and act.”
“My parents have really spent a lot [of money], it shouldn’t have come to all this but I thank God, He has seen us through all this and very soon I will be discharged,” she said.
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