Woman jumps to death at Workers House

A young woman jumped from the 14th floor at Workers House and crashed to death on Saturday morning after she found she had been fleeced of money she had sent home from Dubai where she had been working.

Annet Ashaba, 26, from Sembabule District, returned on October 16 only to find out that she had been cheated of her earnings she had sent to a relative in Uganda to build for her a house.

“...the relatives told us that she sent money to an in-law to buy for her a plot and later sent more money for construction. But when Ashaba came back, she found a plot had been bought but the house that was constructed was not the one she expected,” said Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman Patrick Onyango.
He said Ashaba’s relatives said she had warned them that a nasty thing could happen to her.

Police said Ashaba arrived at the building at 9am and told the guards she was a worker there. “When she reached the 14th floor, she tied her mouth with a piece of cloth and then jumped,” Mr Onyango said.

Ashaba is not the first to jump from Workers House. In September 2009, Baker Kilenzi, 23, slit his throat on the eighth floor over a broken relationship with his girlfriend.

In the same week, Moses Siraji, 24, a worker of City Oil, jumped from the 14th floor and crashed to death.

In 2012, a female graduate jumped to death after several years of futile hunt for a job.