{{Like any parent, Veronique Mukabera is not likely to give up ever since her son Nzabirinda Felix was kidnapped from school and promised a lucrative job which would mark the beginning of a protracted legal fight that seems not in his favour.}}
Mukabera has since 2011 been battling for the rights of her son who was not paid for the house keeping work he did not solicit neither was the mother aware of the job awaiting her son.
{{The Genesis of Nzabirinda Felix’s Bad deal}}
Nzabarinda was born in 1993 to a hard working mother Veronique Mukabera 46 years old.
The mother enrolled her son in school where he showed excellent performance until in form five just a year to complete primary school and join high school that his education life was interrupted by a kidnapper that trafficked him for an unsolicited housekeeping job.
In 2006, Nzabarinda was already in form five and a certain Tegera Augustine snatched him from school telling him that he should drop school and a poverty life in the village to a better job in town.
“That evening my son didn’t return home and thus I never slept because I kept searching for him but in vain,”Mukabera says adding that after several days, a woman in the neighbourhood revealed to her that she knew where her son was.
It turned out that the woman revealing the whereabouts of Nzabarinda at that time was actually the mother of Tegera that kidnapped the school boy.
Tegera was under pressure from friends in Huye district one Singa Steven and wife Gasasira Jacqueline resident at Tumba Sector. They had requested Tegera to bring them a village boy to work as a maid.
Mukabera later traced the her son and managed to talk to the couple that were in custody of Nzabarinda working as a housekeeper.
Singa and wife Gasasire agreed to meet Mukabera in the presence of her son-Nzabirinda and promised him three core things including; Enrolling him for Driving lessons, Building him a House back home and opening him a bank account where all his money would be deposited and would later be handed the account book only after he was old enough to start his own life.
Mukabera was convinced to leave her son to stay with the couple working as a housemaid. She believed the couple and says being illiterate, “i didn’t know they would betray my son,” she says with much pain in her eyes.
Recently Nzabirinda told his employers that he felt it was time-up to leave the housekeeping job and start a new life. Thus he asked Singa to hand him the bank account since he had never been paid.
He also reminded his employer of the House they promised to build for him in the village and the driving school enrolment.
Nsinga later threw a bank account at Nzabirinda which only contained RWF17,000 last deposited in 2009. He was also forced out of the house and told to go and report the matter anywhere he wanted that they were ready for any legal fight.
Nzabarinda returned empty handed at his village to meet his mother at Rulyango village in Mutunda cell,Mbazi sector in Gisagara district.
{{Legal Battle Begins}}
The angry and surprised Mukabera embarked on a legal battle to ensure that her son’s rights are respected. Until today Mukabera has knocked on so many doors of anyone willing to listen to her odeal but there seems no success.
She says, she travelled all the way from southern province to IGIHE to explain her son’s situation.
“am poor but i think am being trounced because am illiterate. However, i appeal to government to help me.”
{Mukabera can be reached on 0725048202}
{{Mukabera armed with dozens of pages detailing her legal battle journey}}
{{A copy of court ruling on the matter}}
{{The copy of the Bank account book for Felix Nzabirinda}}
{{Only Rwf17,000 was deposited on Nzabirinda’s Account. But for all the time he has been working at Singa’s Home as House keeper is equivalent to RWF306,000.}}
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