Death in Dubai: 6. The deal

Summary

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World of Secrets: Death in Dubai — Episode 6, "The Deal"

BBC, October 20, 2025
Host: Renaco Selena
Season 9 Finale

Overview:

This gripping season finale plunges listeners behind the viral scandal of Mona Kizz’s death in Dubai—with a hidden camera operation targeting Abby (Charles Muesigwa), a man alleged to be orchestrating a large-scale prostitution network exploiting African women. Investigators go undercover, extracting evidence, and bring their findings to Mona's bereaved family, laying bare the mechanics and human cost of sex trafficking in Dubai.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Undercover Operation: The Meet with Abby

• Preparation and Risk:
  Undercover reporter Mark poses as a party organizer seeking women for wealthy clients in Dubai, with ex-insider Troy facilitating contact with Abby.

  • Tension and risk are palpable as Mark preps spy gear and reviews the plan (00:10–01:26).
  • “What he’s doing is really risky. And after this, he’s going to have to lie low.” — Renaco Selena (01:51)

• First Contact at Abby's Villa:

  • Mark is taken past Dubai’s glittering towers to a nondescript townhouse; the gang is cautious but unperturbed by Mark’s approach (02:02–03:17).
  • Abby is “relaxed...completely unsurprised” upon meeting a stranger (03:50).

Notable Quote:

“Whoa, man. I’ve heard so much about you, man.”
— Mark (03:07)

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Abby's Pitch: The Sex Trade Business (03:50–08:44)

• Abby’s Role and Attitude

  • Abby openly offers to supply women for any kind of “entertainment” in Dubai for wealthy clients.
    • “We’ve got enough girls… like twenty-five girls, and fresh all the time.” — Abby (04:33–04:44)
    • Women “will do whatever,” “open minded,” “can pretty much do anything” (05:09).
    • Price starts at $1,000 per woman, with extra for “more crazy stuff” like group sex or degrading acts (05:14–05:46).

• Mechanics of the Operation

  • Abby boasts of handling large numbers, rotating new women in via “two villas” (04:51).
  • He describes his journey: former UK bus driver, moved to Dubai in 2012, switched from the phone business to trafficking women after spotting “a market for black girls” (07:06–07:25).

• Self-Justification

  • Abby frames himself as a benefactor:
    • “It’s become part of me. The girls enjoy it and they make their money… they sleep in a nice place… they’re pretty much happy.” — Abby (08:13)
  • Host Renaco counters this, drawing a stark contrast with survivor accounts of abuse and control (08:23).

Memorable Exchange:

“I’d like to retire, to sit up familiar because they make good money, because everything’s organized. They sleep in a nice place. …they’re pretty much happy.”
— Abby (08:13)

“That’s certainly not what I’ve heard. In fact, it couldn’t be further from what Kira, Mia and Hope told me about how he treated them and Monica.”
— Renaco Selena (08:23)

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Evidence Gathering and Abby’s Denials (09:36–14:56)

• After the Sting: Evidence in Hand

  • Undercover footage confirms Abby supplies women for prostitution, describing the business in Abby’s own words (09:36).
  • Abby continues communication, sending account details, discussing logistics for moving girls and cash (10:13–11:49).

• Expansion Efforts & Visa Hurdles

  • Abby seeks new recruits from Kenya via another undercover (Oscar in Nairobi), laments trouble with Dubai’s tightened visa regime: “The problem… is the visa rejections in Dubai. …Kenyan visas are now on the list…” (14:26–14:56).

• Victims’ Plight

  • Recalled by Monica’s friend Mia:

    “There are girls at Abby’s place who are already dead inside, but they just keep moving. …They’re all suffering. If you don’t stop Abby, it’s going to continue happening.” (15:18)

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Failed Confrontation: Attempt to Interview Abby in the UK (15:44–20:43)

• Chasing Abby Across Countries

  • Mark arranges to meet Abby in the UK under the guise of negotiating further deals; Abby travels for a phone auction but repeatedly evades face-to-face questioning.
  • Investigators follow Abby to Kendal and then Manchester airport, racing to confront him before his flight.

• The Brief Confrontation

  • Renaco finally confronts Abby at the airport via phone as he’s boarding:

    “We have evidence that you’re operating a prostitution ring in Dubai. What do you have to say to this?”
    [Abby hangs up] (20:29–20:42)

• Abby’s Texted Defenses

  • Abby attempts to minimize his role, blaming the victims:

    “Bro, please stop tarnishing my name… If I deal in mobile phones and happen to know many of them, is it my fault?” (21:08)

  • He describes Monica—as others have done online—in demeaning terms, blaming her for substance abuse and not paying debts (22:05).

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Bringing the Truth Home: Sharing the Investigation with Monica’s Family (26:53–36:22)

• The Family’s Grief and Questions

  • Host Renaco joins Monica’s family by video in Uganda to deliver evidence and findings, balancing the need for truth and compassion (28:11–31:13).
  • The family expresses anguish and a lingering hope that Monica could be alive; Renaco gently confirms the loss.

• The Footage and the Trafficker Identified

  • Family watches undercover clips; Michael, Monica’s relative, confirms Abby as the key figure in her exploitation:

    “That’s the guy… He told me Monique was not the first and is not the last. The guy told me exactly. He is the embassy, he is the police. Nothing I can do to him.” — Michael (33:39)

• Call for Justice

  • Family member Innocent responds:

    “This finding is going to be a beginning point for us to have justice.” — Innocent (34:19)

  • Rona and Michael emphasize the urgency of stopping Abby and securing justice for Monica and other victims (36:50).

• Family Advice and Hopes

  • Monica’s niece:

    “Please go on, do your work… investigation, it’s so sensitive. So please think about your life also.” — Rona (35:44)

  • Michael urges the family not to take vigilante action but to press for authorities’ intervention (36:22).

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Notable Moments & Quotes

Abby’s Brazen Business Pitch:

“Many are open minded, many can do pretty much everything… I’ve got some pretty nasty crazy.”
— Abby (05:09, 06:04)

Michael’s Description of Abby’s Power:

"He is the embassy, he is the police. Nothing I can do to him.”
— Michael (33:39)

Host’s Assessment:

“Everyone I’ve met along this investigation has painted this picture of a man who avoids accountability, whether in the face of family members, whether in the face of authorities.”
— Renaco Selena (24:50)

Family’s Call for Justice:

“This finding is going to be a beginning point for us to have justice.”
— Innocent (34:19)

Hope for Change:

“You can save these young girls.”
— Rona (36:50)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:54 Mark reviews plan for meeting Abby
• 03:17 Abby arrives for first undercover meeting
• 04:33 Abby: “We’ve got enough girls…”
• 08:13 Abby claims girls are happy, “It’s become part of me.”
• 09:36 Undercover footage secured
• 14:26 Abby on visa rejections—expanding operation
• 20:29 BBC attempts direct confrontation at the airport
• 21:08 Abby denies via WhatsApp, blames victims
• 28:11 Renaco delivers findings to Monica’s family
• 33:39 Family identifies Abby as key trafficker
• 34:19 Family vows to pursue justice

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Tone and Language

The episode maintains the BBC’s journalistic focus—methodical, urgent, but always empathetic when involving survivors and a grieving family. Abby, when recorded undercover, is brash and transactional, shifting to defensive minimization and victim-blaming under pressure.

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Conclusion

Episode 6, "The Deal," is a harrowing exposé of exploitation, featuring hard-won undercover evidence, direct attempts to hold perpetrators accountable, and fraught conversations with those left behind. It closes the investigation with a call for justice, underscoring the immense courage of victims and families who demand the world acknowledge what happened to Mona Kizz and, by extension, so many others.

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Transcript

[Renaco Selena]

A heads up before we start that this episode includes strong language, discussion of suicide and some disturbing events.

[Mark]

Click, click.

[Renaco Selena]

Hold.

[Mark]

1, 2, 3. Just prepping the gear. Make sure it all films together.

[Renaco Selena]

Mark, our undercover reporter, is getting ready to meet Abby. The man we're told was Monica's boss in Dubai.

[Mark]

Okay, so got a camera here and I've got a microphone on my leg here with the Omega. Watch for a bit of bling. Do I look like your average sex party organizer? Half an hour till we meet the source and then hopefully another half an hour before in with Charles or Abby.

[Renaco Selena]

Mark is posing as an events organizer for wealthy men looking for women for parties in Dubai. Before he heads out, he calls me to run through the plan again.

[Mark]

So we're meeting the source and then he's going to bring in the. The guy who's going to bring me into Abby. And then I'll go with him. To where? To Abby's residence, I suspect.

[Renaco Selena]

Nice. That sounds good.

[Michael]

Yeah.

[Renaco Selena]

Oh, fingers crossed. And keep us updated. I'm nervous, to be honest. I'm not more nervous than you though. I'm sure.

[Mark]

Yeah. All right, here we go.

[Renaco Selena]

The source he's talking about is Troy, the guy who says he Abby's former right hand man. He left the network a couple of years ago, but he's still in touch with Abby and a few of his guys. He's going to take Mark to meet one of them, then leave.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I told him talking to Abby.

[Mark]

Okay, good.

[Renaco Selena]

What he's doing is really risky. And after this, he's going to have to lie low.

[Mark]

Troy, see you later, man. See you later, boss.

[Renaco Selena]

Mark gets in a taxi with the man he's just been introduced to. They drive past shiny high rise buildings, pavements lined with palm trees, and then pull up outside a smart townhouse.

[Mark]

It's a nice area.

[Renaco Selena]

This guy has no idea he's leading an undercover reporter straight to his boss.

[Mark]

Thanks, man. So you're taking me.

[Renaco Selena]

They step into a room that has the windows blacked out. There's several big guys smoking. She. But Abby isn't here. So Mark is taken to another villa one block over Abby.

[Mark]

Is he just getting ready? Okay, cool.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

You know, has a lot of place. Yeah, yeah.

[Mark]

He has to move around. I understand. He's a busy guy.

[Renaco Selena]

And then a few minutes later, the man we've been investigating for two years, Charles Muesigwa, known as Ab, walks into the room.

[Mark]

Whoa, man. I've heard so much about you, man.

[Renaco Selena]

This is World of Secrets Season 9 Death in Dubai from the BBC World Service. I'm Renaco. Selena. Episode 6 the Deal Abby looks relaxed, dressed in a striped shirt and completely unsurprised to find a stranger standing in his villa.

[Mark]

How you doing?

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Good. I'm doing well. Yeah?

[Mark]

Yeah, yeah.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Tell me what's up.

[Mark]

Let's go on. So I've got a series of parties coming up like once a week, 10 people.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

All right.

[Mark]

I need some entertainment.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

And where's the party? Like in rooms.

[Mark]

It's in residence. Private residence or can we talk somewhere private is okay.

[Renaco Selena]

Abby leads Mark outside onto a small patio area and then stands right next to a noisy air conditioning unit, making it a bit hard to hear him on Mark's hidden mic.

[Mark]

So it'll be next Thursday? Yeah, and then Thursday after that as well. So these are finance guys. All right, can you sort me out like what do we.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Yeah, we've got enough girls.

[Renaco Selena]

We've got enough girls, he says. Abby then takes out his phone and starts scrolling through photos of them.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

So you have to tell me which girls you want.

[Mark]

What her for sure.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

We've got like 25 girls.

[Mark]

25 bills now and fresh all the time. Okay, so 20.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

We've got two fillers and that's where they sleep.

[Mark]

And today like yeah, they'll do whatever.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Many, many are open minded, many can do pretty much everything. So that's the toys, right? Yeah, yeah, we can pretty much do anything.

[Renaco Selena]

You can pretty much do anything you want. Abby says.

[Mark]

So we're talking like what's the normal price?

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Starts from at least. At least 1k. At least at least basically form like one to start form. So the more crazy stuff they do. If you want a foursome, if not animal, they're gonna ask for that.

[Renaco Selena]

If you missed that. Abby says the girls will be happy to take 1000 as a starting price. He means US dollars. And if Mark wants something like girl, girl, a foursome or anal, it'll be.

[Mark]

More do they do to buy porta potty stuff as well?

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I've told you they're open minded. When I say open and I will send you the craziest I have.

[Michael]

Okay.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I've got some. Well and I've got some pretty nasty crazy.

[Renaco Selena]

I've got some pretty nasty crazy girls, he says. He seems to be in full sales mode, smiling a lot, revealing this distinctive gap between his front teeth. He shows Mark more pictures of girls.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

She will really, really, really, really enjoy how this work.

[Mark]

Should I take your number? I give you a call about this? Hang on.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Where are you from?

[Mark]

I'm West London.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

West London. I was a bus driver. In the uk.

[Renaco Selena]

No.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Where in East London.

[Mark]

East London.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I was a bus driver for 10 years.

[Renaco Selena]

He then pulls out his UK driving license and tells Mark he started working in Dubai around the time of the London Olympics. So he's been here since 2012.

[Mark]

Do you. How did you go from being a bus driver to working here?

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I mean, I can say this. I was a bus driver. I do phone business. I do mobile phones.

[Renaco Selena]

He buys used mobile phones from the uk, gets them repaired cheaply in Dubai, and then ships them to Uganda on an early trip. He says he noticed a market for black girls in the high end clubs at the time. He says most African girls stayed in the poorer area of Deira.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

There could be some kind of market for black dogs. So I said, guys, why did you take a pumpkin? So they're like, that size is expensive, blah, blah, blah. I said, okay, I get a room, they can stay in my flat. But that was like 2016.

[Mark]

My God, that's. You've been here a while, man.

[Rona]

Yeah.

[Mark]

Is it not more stress though?

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I mean, it could be something that I enjoy doing. I put winner £3,000,000. But I'll still do it because like I enjoy. It's like it's become part of me. It's become part of me. You know, the girls enjoy it and they make their money.

[Mark]

Yeah, yeah. And I pretty much help them just make their money. And then you make your money.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I like to retire, to sit up familiar because they make good money, because everything's organized. They sleep in a nice place. Yeah. So they're pretty much happy.

[Renaco Selena]

Abby is claiming to be this benevolent figure helping the girls. That's certainly not what I've heard. In fact, it really couldn't be further from what Kira, Mia and Hope told me about how he treated them and Monica.

[Mark]

Listen, man. Yeah.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

You want to start. You want to a supple night tonight?

[Mark]

Yeah, let me see. I've got a lot of stuff to do on with this, but I will. Should I give you a call? Yeah, yeah, dude. We'll be in touch. See you later, man.

[Renaco Selena]

Mark leaves the villa and starts looking for a taxi.

[Mark]

Fucking hell, that was intense.

[Renaco Selena]

Hello?

[Mark]

Can you hear me?

[Rona]

Renako.

[Renaco Selena]

Hi. Hi. I can hear you. I can hear you. So how. How did it go? What happened?

[Mark]

I tell you, it was so weird pulling up opposite that sort of back street that I've spent so long looking at Google Earth in. You know, we all have.

[Renaco Selena]

Yeah. And he fills me in, but he's worried the kit might have failed.

[Mark]

I realized at that point that the flipping camera is getting quite hot and I almost, like, unbearable to touch. I'm not even sure if it's work.

[Renaco Selena]

It did. Meaning now we have evidence. The undercover footage. You've just heard of Abe supplying girls for prostitution, which is illegal in Dubai. Girls who, in his words, you can pretty much do anything you want to. Mark keeps in touch with Abby and a few days later calls me with an update, sending me over a screen grab. Right, let me see. I'm gonna try and open on my computer as we speak. Oh, he's given you his account details.

[Mark]

It gets better.

[Renaco Selena]

When are you next in the uk? If you can come before next Thursday, we can work it out. Wow. So possibly there's a meet in there in the uk. This could be my chance to speak to Abby, to put the findings of our investigation to him. The plan, we decide, is that Mark will arrange a meeting with him somewhere fairly public, so that I can then appear and try to talk to him. This is the only chance, really, to find out what he has to say for himself. After all this time of hearing what other people have to say about him, his treatment of them, his behavior, his operation in Dubai. So, fingers crossed, actually just happened. I'm in a pub in West London, around the corner from the hotel where Mark has arranged to meet abby. It's about 1:40, where, I guess maybe 100 or 200 meters away from the meeting spot, waiting to see if Abby does show. He said that he has to go to the airport first and then he's going to come back to meet us. So who knows if he's coming or if he's maybe sending someone else first to scope things out and see if everything's okay. The hours tick by and there's no sign of Abby. But then something does happen. I actually can't believe this. While we're here waiting to meet Abby, Abby has sent a message to our whistleblower, Troy. He used to be the second in command in his operation, apparently saying that he needs help in getting girls who come to Dubai. Abby asks Troy if he knows how to get visas for girls from Kenya because he wants to start bringing them to Dubai. He also asks Troy if he's in Kampala because he's looking for veterans. I think he means girls who've been to Dubai before. And he asks Troy if he knows anything. I mean, the timing of this is just incredible because we're just about to meet him. It's another layer of evidence about what he does, what his business is. Abby doesn't show up to meet Mark, so questioning him will have to wait. But now that we know he's looking to get girls from Kenya, we bring in another undercover reporter. Someone based in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. I'm calling him Oscar. Hi, Oscar, this is Renaco. I'm going to forward his number to you. Oscar's going to pose as someone interested in sending girls to Abby. He sends Abby a voice note.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I'm Oscar and I'm from Kenya. I got a number from my friend Troy from. We were with the last event and I was providing ladies for ushering department.

[Rona]

And he told me he has someone whom he can link me with so that I can maybe provide for him.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Ladies from his side. All right, that's very good. Literally, we bring girls here to Dubai that want to hustle. You understand? Yeah. So anyone who wants to hustle in bars, in nightclubs, but high end ones, the real, real high end ones of Dubai. Yeah. To summarize what we do here, got some Kenyans as well, by the way. Yeah. Like three or four if you get time. You can send me some pictures and have a look at what kind you've got.

[Renaco Selena]

Oscar asks Abby what he means by hustling. He doesn't respond, but then sends this revealing voice note.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

The problem we are having right now is the visa rejections in Dubai. That is the major, major challenge we are having. Dubai is rejecting a lot of visa applications and Kenya has been not been targeted of late. It was Uganda, Nigeria. But Kenyan visas are now on the list also. And the thing is, if you apply for a visa and it gets rejected, they don't refund, money is lost.

[Renaco Selena]

This suggests Abby is directly involved in bringing girls to Dubai. Although he says he's struggling to get new girls in, our surveillance has shown that right now he has girls with him at his filler in Dubai. And something Monica's friend Mia said comes back to me.

[Michael]

There are girls at Abby's place who are already dead inside, but they just keep moving. You're just seeing bodies, but the girls are dead. They're all suffering. They're all suffering. I know. They need help. If you don't stop Abby, it's going to continue happening.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Hi. Hiding. I'm planning my journey to London. Yeah. I'm gonna let you know in the next 48 hours.

[Rona]

24.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

48 hours. Yeah.

[Renaco Selena]

On the 30th of July, Abby gets back in touch with our undercover reporter. Mark.

[Mark]

You're not going to believe this team, but Abby's just messaged saying he's coming over this Tuesday coming. So on the 5th.

[Renaco Selena]

This could be my chance to finally ask him about everything. I've been told to look him in the eye and see what he has to say. He tells Mark he's coming to the UK for a mobile phone auction.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

The auction tomorrow is ending in. It's in Kendall, above Lancaster.

[Mark]

I didn't even know it was a thing that they sell phones like that.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I knew this for 15 years. I'm very well connected.

[Renaco Selena]

Mark tries to get Abby to agree to a meeting while he's in the UK by reminding him of the deal they've been discussing for Abby to provide girls for sex at regular events in Dubai. He tells him a lot of money is at stake.

[Mark]

It'll be in cash. So you like. I don't know whether you want to. Can you go through customs with that amount of money? Will you be okay to do that?

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I have been moving cash, big sums of cash, for a long time. I know how to move cash. I know how to move cash.

[Mark]

Okay.

[Rona]

All right.

[Renaco Selena]

Then Abby tells Mark he has new girls coming soon.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Yeah, and I've got some very, very fresh entries. They're coming in for winter, for this, for the winter season. They're coming in next week, so.

[Mark]

Really? Can you send me pictures?

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Yeah, I can send you one of them, yeah.

[Mark]

Where did you find her? Or Uganda. Oh, okay, good.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I've sent you. Okay. Have you got it?

[Mark]

Let me just check.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I've got another coming in also. Very nice.

[Mark]

You've had no issues with anyone getting them in, are they. Is it easy?

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

They come with tourist visas.

[Mark]

Okay, nice. All right, dude.

[Michael]

Bye. Bye.

[Renaco Selena]

The next day, we're in Kendal in the Lake District, driving along the river, past cottages and over medieval stone bridge. Yeah, we're eight minutes out now. With its green rolling hills, it strikes me that Kendal has more in common with Monica's rural home in western Uganda than the skyscrapers and desert of Dubai.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Just keep your eyes peeled.

[Renaco Selena]

It's a strange place for a Dubai pimp. But he's told us he's here somewhere. It's not a big place, and we've just got to try to find him. So did you see this message that he's loading stock, which means he's still here. We're checking everywhere we can think of and calling auction houses, phone shops, industrial estates. Hi, there. I wonder if you could help me. I was trying to find out if there are auctions finishing for electronics and phones. We can't find him. But then Mark manages to get through to him. On the phone.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Hello?

[Renaco Selena]

Hey, bro.

[Mark]

How did you go? Did you get everything you needed?

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Yeah, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good.

[Rona]

But I'm so busy.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I'm looking for flight right now. Any flight I get. Like I'm trying to get the next available way out of here. You understand?

[Michael]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mark]

Let me know when you're flying out.

[Renaco Selena]

But Abby won't say where he's flying from. Maybe he's getting a bit suspicious. If he disappears back to Dubai again, it's going to be much harder to confront him. Manchester is the closest airport. We race there, jump out and run inside. Is this the check in for British Airways?

[Rona]

Yeah.

[Renaco Selena]

So we need to find the BA 405. That's the one. Manchester to Dubai. I've just had a scan and there was him. Then Abby tells Mark he's gone through to the gate. He'll not be able to take Mark's calls for much longer. So we decide it's got to be now.

[Mark]

All right, let's do that now. I'll call you and then I'll patch you in.

[Michael]

All right?

[Renaco Selena]

Mr. Massiguire?

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Hello.

[Renaco Selena]

Hi, Mr. Musiga. Ronaldo Selena for the BBC. We have evidence that you're operating a prostitution ring in Dubai. What do you have to say to this? Is it 25 young women that you have working? He's hung up already.

[Mark]

He's gone.

[Renaco Selena]

He's gone. Oh, he's gone. I. I had so many questions I wanted to ask him.

[Mark]

I'm ringing him again. Hold on. No, no answered. I've just messaged him. This is your chance to pull your side of the story, bro. He's online.

[Renaco Selena]

His message, bro, please stop tarnishing my name. If I went where girls do their business and they follow me to my parties and do their stuff, is it anyone's problem when they go to hotels and rent rooms? Did you find me seated by their sides? If they send me messages that they have gotten a visa and I connect them with landlords, is it my fault? If I deal in mobile phones and happen to know many of them, Is it my fault? Please. Next time investigate. Well, go deep into Deira. Look for people who bring girls and take passports off them and exploit them. I'm a party animal in Dubai and party with very wealthy people. That's why girls always come onto our tables and look for me. I'm going to hand over everything to my solicitor. I text Abi back and ask what happened to Monica and Kayla. So he says you are investigating things you have been lied about. Relatives or friends sending you, didn't tell you that both were very heavy users of substances and were like mad people. Especially Mon, which I guess is Mona Monica. She died weighing merely 35 or 45 kg. She had been evicted from multiple buildings, not paying landlords. She moved into a flat of someone new in the business who did not know her because no one in Techon was giving her a bed. This is what he's saying. I tell him I would really like to have a conversation but he just keeps messaging. Oh, unfortunately you have wrong evidence. She died with her passport. I am still chatting with you guys because you have wrong information. She got her visa, bought her ticket, I connected her for a bed space. So he's just the connector. I record a video message with some of the questions I planned to put to him. We have evidence that you're operating a prostitution ring in Dubai. We have evidence that you also offer to provide these girls for degrading sexual over there in Dubai. Is it true that you told Mona Kiz that she owes you a hundred thousand dirhams? How long would it have taken her to pay off that money? Mr. Musigwa? He texts back saying Monica stayed with multiple landlords, joined many wrong gangs. I ask him, okay, so are you saying she never worked for you? And he says, nope, I would have her passport. I text him again, so you're saying she never worked for you? He replies, use logic please no. He claims that Monica was not indebted to him. I ask again what happened to her? He replies she had lost it. She was like a Philadelphia street zombie. The ones you see on TV speaking that way about the dead. It feels very much the same as the dehumanising language that the Internet uses about her. Then I ask him, how did she get exposed to drugs? I don't know, he replies. And then I put to him what Michael and Kira remember him saying that Monica was not the first to die and would not be the last. I ask him what he meant by this. He just says, the more I am explaining you what happened, the more you want depress to hear something. He completely disassociates himself from everything that's happened in Dubai, from this entire industry, from any wrongdoing. Everyone I've met along this investigation has painted this picture of a man who avoids accounting accountability, whether in the face of family members, whether in the face of authorities. But I almost hoped that he would speak to me. And that hasn't happened. After this, he starts Sending us strange updates from his travels.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

I just touched down in Athens in Greece for a night and then move to Doha. Just giving an insight of my business. Don't put me in that rubbish of Dubai.

[Renaco Selena]

He seems to be trying to say that he's so busy buying phones, he has no time to be running a prostitution business in Dubai. We put everything to him in writing. He replies, saying that he hadn't seen Monica for four or five months, weeks before her death, and that these are all false allegations. He then also says family members may be pushing you to change the narrative, but she purely committed suicide. It's been three years since Monica died and almost a year since I last visited her family in Uganda. Now it feels like the right time to update them on what I found out. Not an easy conversation. And to make it harder, it needs to happen over a video link. I'm in London in a studio with producer Ruth. Basically, whenever you're ready, just join that zoom call and on your laptop, right in Uganda, one of our other producers, Bondo, is on his way to the family farm in Isinjiro.

[Rona]

Hi, Ronako. Yeah, so it's a good morning and we almost getting there. We are now going through the hard rocks, going through that path near the banana plantation and we can see the house on top of the hill.

[Renaco Selena]

Michael, Monica's relative, who was in the UAE when she died, is now back in Kampala, so he's dialing in from there. Hi, Michael. Nice to see you.

[Michael]

Is this register working?

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Okay, we are good to start.

[Renaco Selena]

Bondo connects. Everyone has gathered around his laptop. Rona, the first person in the family that I talk to is there. So too is Rita, Monica's sister. And some of the brothers I met when I visited.

[Mark]

What's up?

[Renaco Selena]

Hello. Hello.

[Michael]

Hi. Hi.

[Renaco Selena]

How you doing? Hi, innocent. Hi, Venom. Good to see everyone. But then we start having connection issues.

[Rona]

Is Michael there? Because we are deep in the village. Our network is on and off. Village network is the problem.

[Renaco Selena]

Really? Can they not hear us? We do manage to reconnect, but I'm not sure how long the signal will hold out for. So I decide to tell them everything in one go. Firstly to say thank you for trusting me to investigate. I know it's taken a really long time and you've been so patient waiting to see what comes back. I know that some of this information will be very difficult to hear. So to start with. So I've spoken to friends of Monica's and they say. I explained what Kira and Mia told me about the situation. They say Monica was in how they were trapped and had to sleep with men in order to pay off a huge debt. So they told us that she was trapped there in Dubai, but she managed to get away. And just before she died, she was very close to getting free. I'm pausing just in case there's any. I want it to be as. As comfortable for everyone as possible. So that's fine. Yeah. I've been told from Rona that some in the family are holding out hope that Monica is still alive. And they've been trying to protect Monica's mum for fear that she might not be able to bear the news without having her body to bury. There's been uncertainty leading up to this call. Rhona messaged me asking me this, addressing, this is going to be hard. Everyone that we spoke to who knew her and were around at the time, they also believe that she passed away. So we don't have any evidence that she is still living. And I know that is very hard to hear and to accept, but I just wanted to share that with you so you hear that from us.

[Michael]

I don't know how I can explain to you, but I have been crying with this. I have been suffering with this. I have been thinking about this. I have been feeling it deep inside in me, actually, to dream also, because I usually think maybe she's still there. I usually think maybe someone keep her somewhere. But since you come up and you said she's no longer there, my heart, it's like it's not healed. I can't tell you that. It's just someone to go in that kind way without even barrier, without seeing the body.

[Renaco Selena]

We can't. I'm sorry. No, you don't have to apologize. You don't have to apologize. Please take your time. I then tell them we think we know where Monica is buried and give them the details. And then Monica's elder sister Rita wants to say something. We failed. We couldn't find the money to bring her back as a family. We would love to bring her back to bury her, but we could never afford the money to bring her from abroad. Then everyone takes a moment. Rhona comes back in with a question.

[Michael]

I would like to know what exactly happened, like how she failed. Let's say she failed from the building or someone killed her.

[Renaco Selena]

We can't say specifically how she died or what happened on the balcony that night. But that's what I tell them. What Mia said about the landlord and Monica's new apartment, saying he heard Monica fighting with someone on the balcony. The Night she died. But we don't know what happened and we can't say whether anyone was involved in her death. I tell them what we do have a good understanding of is her life in Dubai before she died and the man she was working for. And I'm going to show them some of our undercover footage. Okay, Just very quickly, just context. So the first clip that you will see is an attempt that we made to further investigate the man that the evidence shows offered the job to Monica to begin with. And then the second clip is the man who Monica was brought to in Dubai, who she was working for in a syndrome. Everyone leans in towards Bondo laptop.

[Rona]

Okay, so we are good to go. Now you can see.

[Renaco Selena]

And in Kampala, Michael is glued to the screen. When the second clip finishes, the one of Abby offering girls to Mark, Michael jumps in.

[Rona]

That's the guy run across. That's really the guy. That's the guy. Who told you he's the real guy? I talked to him personally who told me Monique was not the first and is not the last. The guy told me exactly. He's the embassy, he is the police. Nothing I can do to him.

[Abby (Charles Muesigwa)]

Jesus.

[Rona]

You are on the right track.

[Renaco Selena]

At the farm, one of Monica's brothers, innocent, wants to speak.

[Rona]

I know we can pursue this. I'm sure the government of Uganda is going to stop this gangster. That man is a gangster. So really what other family members are saying, they are in shock now after revealing all this. Everyone, you can see that they are really disappointed. But they have known the truth now. This finding is going to be a beginning point for us to have justice. Thank you so much.

[Renaco Selena]

I appreciate you saying that. But we don't expect thanks from you at all. And. And we pray that this makes a difference. The next thing I think that is really important to say is we spoke to many of Monica's friends, people who really cared about her and lived alongside her. And I'm sure they would want you to know just how special she was to them. They described her as very brave. Sorry, give me one second. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I did not want to get emotional. They said that she was very brave, she was very, very kind and she was the person who stood up for them. Monica's niece, Rona steps in.

[Michael]

I want to say something to Celine. I know because this news of Monica Kalonji went far away in many countries. As in, if you get this news out, many people, they might come out and say something. Maybe someone will get energy to say what exactly happened. Please go on, do your work. And please, please, please, please take care of yourself about this investigation. Investigation. It's so sensitive. So please think about your life also.

[Renaco Selena]

Thank you. Rona. Michael, I just wanted to come back to you because you were very emotional just now and I could. Yeah. Michael warns the family not to take things into their own hands. Be careful with this information. Let the authorities do their work. He says he's still haunted by the memory of the girls he says he saw in Abby's apartment who must have families that miss them.

[Rona]

This man holds many, many girls in his custody. They have the mothers like Monica. The way her mother now is crying, she will cry for the rest of her life. She's in deep pain. But if you bring this man to justice, you can save these young girls.

[Renaco Selena]

One of those girls who says she was in Abby's apartment that day and witnessed the confrontation was Monica's friend Kieran. She says she managed to escape, but still worries about those left behind. I ask what she thinks should happen now. I think the UK should work with the Ugandan government and Dubai to try and fight for those girls. The last question, I guess. Is there anything I haven't asked you? We haven't asked you that you want to say, like a message?

[Rona]

If you are talking, speak to Abby now. What would you tell him?

[Renaco Selena]

I'll tell him.

[Michael]

I'll tell him to give his life to God.

[Renaco Selena]

Justice is always out in the right time. It's just a matter of time. If you are suffering distress or despair and need support, you could speak to a health professional or an organisation that offers support. Details of help available in many countries can be found at Befrienders worldwide. Www.befrienders.org. this has been the last episode of Death In Dubai, Season 9 of World of Secrets. Thank you for listening. Please leave us a review. It really helps us to get the word out. World of Secrets Death in Dubai is produced by Ruth Evans, Lee Chung Bondo and me, Renaco Selena. The sound design and mix is by Andy Fell. The editor is Rebecca Henschke. It was a BBCI investigation produced in association with Thread Studios for bbci. The executive producer is Milen Larson and the editor, Mustafa Khalili. For Thread Studios, the executive producer was Mal Greece. Alex Farquharson is head of production, Siobhan Ray is the production manager and Chris Jones is the assistant producer. Original music by Hugh Jones. The production manager was Maria Caramello and the production coordinator was Katie Morrison. Translation and voiceover by Diana Luanga. Additional reporting by Nicholas Odiambo. Many thanks to the BBC World Service commissioning team that is behind World of Secrets. Before you go, there are eight previous seasons of World of Secrets, the BBC's global investigations podcast, waiting for you in this feed and available to listen to right now.