After allegedly being kidnapped by armed men while attending opposition leader Bobi Wine’s campaign rally, two Kenyan human rights advocates have vanished in Uganda.
Bobi Wine vehemently denounced the “abduction” of Nicholas Oyoo and Bob Njagi, claiming that the two had been “picked up mafia-style” at a gas station and taken to an unidentified location.
The BBC was informed by Ugandan police spokesperson Kituma Rusoke that the two were not under their custody. Foreign affairs officials are attempting to arrange their safe release, according to Kenya’s Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen. “It is the duty of the government of Kenya to protect its citizens in any part of the world,” Murkomen stated.
Pop singer Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, is vying to become president in the upcoming elections. Museveni, 80, has been in office since 1986.
He claimed that because of their association with him, the Ugandan government was targeting the two Kenyans.
“We call for these brothers’ unconditional freedom and denounce the rogue regime’s ongoing lawlessness! He wrote on X, “It seems that the criminal regime kidnapped them just for being associated with me and showing support for our cause.”Rights organizations Amnesty International Kenya, Vocal Africa, and the Law Society of Kenya jointly sent an open letter to the Ugandan High Commission, calling the most recent event “yet another alarming case in a pattern of abductions and enforced disappearances” in the area.
The groups have urged Ugandan authorities to guarantee the safety of the Kenyan activists and reveal their whereabouts.Additionally, he gave Bobi Wine the responsibility of proving the claims of kidnapping and identifying the security agency that was involved.
It has frequently been said that Ugandan security forces plan to detain opposition politicians and supporters while they are not wearing uniforms. A few of the people who were arrested have now reappeared in court with criminal charges against them.
According to a fellow activist who was present on Wednesday afternoon, the two were coerced into a car by four armed guys who then drove away.
They were four in number. The witness, who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons, informed Kenya’s Citizen TV that they grabbed Bob and Oyoo Ochieng, the secretary general of the Free Kenya Movement, along with a woman who was seated in front.
