Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi popularly known in music circles as Tems has recalled her prison ordeal after she was detained in Uganda for flouting COVID-19 restrictions in the year 2020.
The ‘Damages’ crooner who recounted her experience during an interview with Angie Martinez, said that she initially thought it was a joke at first but when she got to the prison everything became real to her.
Tems who said that she started crying when she was later handed her prison uniform also noted during the interview that she quickly adapted to being in prison.
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She said; “I thought I wasn’t gonna come out. I thought I was seeing it for a reason like maybe I was meant to help the people. I was settling in because I adapted real quick and as I was walking in I started to cry because they gave me my uniform and it stunk because they don’t wash it.
It was a small room and there was nothing, there’s just the floor they give you blankets and tissues and you’re just on the floor, no bed and I did it for two days. I didn’t even know I was going to get out, I didn’t have any ears on the ground nobody told me anything. Outside everyone was like ‘free Tems, free Omah lay but inside I was just hopeful, waiting.”
