Kenyan activists abducted after joining opposition rally in Uganda | Uganda
After participating in a presidential campaign event for Bobi Wine, two Kenyan activists were kidnapped in Uganda.
Heavy armed security operators, Free Kenya President Bob Njagi and Wednesday in the afternoon of a gas station near the campla Nicholas Oyoo detained the Secretary General of the Movement.
The activists reported that they went to Uganda from Kenya to Uganda on Monday to support the wine – their real name Robert Kyagulani Ssenamu – at the campaign rallies in the eastern region.
In the video of an event on Tuesday, Njagi can be seen on the stage alongside the wine leading to Uganda’s National Unity Platform Party.
A Ugandan lawyer, journalist and president Yoweri Jeveni government critic Agather Athaire said: “They participated in the first rally in Eastern Uganda and left the campaign to follow the campaign, and both were taken by police uniforms and some of them were open.
“This is another event seen as a transborder edition that became widespread in East Africa.”
Atuhaire and Boniface Mwangi, a Kenyan activist, were detained in Tanzania during a visit to support the opposition politician. Both said that they had been beaten and tortured before they were thrown into the borders of their country.
A leading Ugandalı opposition leader Kizza Besigye and his assistant Obeid Lutale were detained in Kenya in November. Besigye was later accused of betrayal in a military court fight in Kampala.
Atuhaire said: “It points to two possible scenarios: Three authoritarians [leaders] In East Africa, their critics, activists and journalists are working together to break, or they are very afraid of a united East Africa, and therefore they see that they support East Africans, the victim of the oppression of East Africans. “
Njagi was kidnapped by the masked men in Nairobi last year during a wave of kidnapping believed to target critics of the Kenya government. Incommunicado was held 32 days later to defend progressive economic measures and better management.
In January, Uganda criticized the abduction of wine challenging Jewen in the presidential elections.
43 We demand that these brothers be released unconditionally and we demand that these brothers be released unconditionally, ”43 -year -old 43 -year -old said.
A police spokesman Rusoke Kituuma did not respond to repeated calls to comment on the issue. The government did not make any explanation.
The 81 -year -old Jeweni has come to power in Uganda since 1986 and made it one of the longest national leaders in the world.
