Two Kenyan activists have spoken publicly for the first time about what they call a 38-day detention ordeal in Uganda at the hands of an armed militia allegedly linked to President Museveni’s son, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, according to the Standard.
The paper reported that Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo were abducted on October 1 after their vehicle broke down at a petrol station near Kampala.
It quoted them as claiming that seven armed men seized them and took them to a secret facility where they were tortured and held without trial.
The two described being kept at a compound they identified as “Next to None,” which they allege operates from Sera Kasenyi, a military training base used by the Special Forces Command in Entebbe.
According to the Standard, Mr Njagi said the camp holds more than 150 detainees, many of them political prisoners.
Both men accused the militia of acting on orders from General Kainerugaba, sometimes without President Museveni’s knowledge.
This website could not independently verify this claim, but General Keinerugaba has previously posted on social media bragging about security forces detaining NUP supporters.
The Ugandan government denies any involvement, and the Uganda People’s Defence Forces said they never held the pair.
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In a media appearance, Mr Museveni admitted the Kenyans were arrested, saying: “They came, they were working with Kyagulanyi’s group, [and] they are experts in riots.”
He added: “The ones who are doing that game here in Uganda will end up badly.”
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, aka Bobi Wine, the president of the National Unity Platform, reacted to Mr Museveni’s comments, saying: “He claims they underwent all the torture and suffering because they are ‘experts in riots.’ Shame upon you! If they committed any offence, why were they not produced before court and formally charged?”
The case triggered diplomatic exchanges between Nairobi and Kampala.
Kenya’s Foreign and Diaspora Affairs ministry opened a consular investigation, while the Kenyan High Commission in Kampala engaged Uganda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On October 23, the Ugandan High Court dismissed a habeas corpus petition (a court order requiring authorities to justify a person’s detention) filed by lawyers for the missing men, ruling there was no evidence they were in state custody.
They were freed on November 8 after mounting pressure from human-rights groups and Kenya’s diplomatic corps.
Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister Musalia Mudavadi thanked Ugandan authorities for securing their release, according to the Standard.
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