By Vanessah
On Friday night, 5 of my sisters and I decided to have a girls night out in Kampala. We decided to try out the Wink Bar at Acacia Avenue.
Upon reaching there, we all went through the normal security check routine and after some of us going through, one of our sisters was refused to enter.
We came back to inquire why she was refused to enter and the security mentioned that she appeared younger than 18 years because she appears shorter. We tried explaining to the security that our sister is above 18 and show them an ID but they did not want to listen, instead a boda boda guy on that stage got a branch from a tree around that area handed it to the security and they forcefully threw us out beating the entire team, one by one. one of the girls was really hurt on the arm, another on the thigh then the other on the finger.
Besides the security had a gun and we were so scared to do anything. Plus one of those other special security guys in black suits instead started laughing out loud at us.
We were so hurt and humiliated we decided to go to the nearby Police on Acacia Avenue to make a report but we were directed to the Golf course Police police, the golf Course police directed us to Wandegeya Police, then Wandegeya Police directed us to Old Kira Road. After all we made a statement and went with the police to Wink.
For some unknown reasons, the guy was not even arrested instead the management collaborating with the security decided to threaten us that they were going to call some CID officers to arrest and detain us.
After all said and done, where do people seek justice in this country especially the way the Management and security at Wink Bar, Acacia taking the law in their Hands and just walk away with it. Is this the way they treat women at this bar?