Her Tragedy

My name is John, my gender identity is am a transgender and my preferred name is Lucretia. I was living in Uganda, and i was working as a waiter in a certain restaurant (nice eateries) . It was when I got my partner in July 2018, Derrick that everything went wrong. This went more worse the day I invited him at my quarter besides our big house for a visit that he was asking for me for a long period of time. This happened in August. 2018. 

He came home to see my parents and get to know where I live. At our home, we had a maid whom used to confess to me her feelings to me yet I kept on insisting. On that day Derrick came to visit me, she found us in bed after bumping into my quarter abruptly yet we hadn't locked the door.

We were in bed naked as partners. She locked the door after noticing that the one I was with in bed was my fellow boy. She made a loud alarm gathering everyone to see such "abominations" in the community.

Of course they came with everything hurting to end our lives. The door was opened and started to hit us, stoned us, spit on us, etc. As they were still mob justicing us, the police reached, fired bullets in the air everyone scattering in different ways. The police caught us rescuing us and taken to police station.

We bribed them and left without recording any case about us in their books of records. 

We ran, Derrick got a room some where near Matugga, and I went to my uncles place in Lusanja, we kept on meeting.

I explained everything that had happened to me and asked him to stay at his place for a small period of tym as am looking for somewhere far and safe I could hide. He allowed me, though we still met with Derrick behind his back. As I had stayed with him for 3 months, I started intervening into their land grabbing issues. That was around November of 2018. A certain rich man named Kiconco had grabbed off the entire village land and thus the whole community was being forced to vacate the land as soon as possible yet the man was a fraud.

I decided to give them a hand and claim the land back. I gathered a group of youths, and we started filing up cases against that man in different offices, plus getting in touch with different powerful people whom would help us rescue the land.

In the struggle, I found an old rich lady whom started dating me. She promised me heaven and earth but kept on telling her that I can't love her coz am not the kind of person she thought I was. She was so a mazed to see such a poor young boy refusing to go on with her, regardless the many things she was ready to do for me.

One day on a certain gathering, were both of us attended, she officially proposed to me but again refused.

 She was so embarrassed and promised to pay it back to me and to that partner of mine I always claimed that I had to her. The rich man also started putting false accusations against us, my group and all of them were put in jail because he had money to bribe everyone. He wanted to weaken us. It was only me that I had remained. However, during April of 2019, one day, we were in a meeting about the same land issues and all the community citizens, leaders, my uncle, rich man, police and the rich old lady, Sharon was also around. I didn't know that after embarrassing her on the other gathering she started following me and Derrick whenever we moved together, she even got to know Derrick's place. 

She had captured photos and videos of me and Derrick at RAM bar, parties, etc while kissing each other and so on. If you could just look at those pics, it was enough to convince you that we are really gays with Derrick. She showed everyone at the meeting that I was a gay with Derrick. 

They started hitting me with everything, stoned me, but I managed to run and got a boda.b.  It drove me to Derrick's place but on reaching there, he had been killed. I went and got a taxi that brought me to Jinja. I had to look for a further place to hide. As I had stayed there, In December 2019, Mr.Kiconco found me at my work place because I had got a job in a restaurant (Eastern dinners) that gave me a new life. I didn't know how he followed me up to that place. He was calm and he had came with a deal. He told me to either end my life or move out of the country or else he will kill me him self or put me to jail because he had all proof that I am a gay. 

He gave me 5 months to do think of what is best for me and on the 3rd month, I left Uganda Jinja to Malaba, on the 8th of March 2020 where I got into Kenya on date 9th March 2020. I was registered on the date of 10th March 2020. 11th March 2020 I was put in the transit center for one week and then brought to Kakuma camp reception center by date 19th March 2020. I got relocated out of the reception center to the camp community in April 2020. 

The situation is no change from what I was facing back in Uganda. Am still facing the same insecurity issues, and my life is at a more risk. 

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