Ugandan Opposition Leader Kizza Besigye Abducted in Nairobi

Uganda’s opposition leader Kizza Besigye was reportedly abducted in Nairobi on Saturday, November 16.

According to Besigye’s wife Winnie Byanyima, the politician went missing while in Nairobi to attend the launch of Martha Karua’s memoir, Against The Tide, over the weekend.

She took to social media on Wednesday morning to appeal to the Ugandan Government to release her husband who has constantly borne the brunt of being the opposition leader in the East African Country.

“I request the government of Uganda to release my husband Kizza Besigye from where he is being held immediately,” Byanyima wrote
She also revealed that she had reliable reports that her husband is currently being held at a military jail in Uganda’s capital, Kampala.

“He was kidnapped last Saturday while in Nairobi for Hon Martha Karua’s book launch. I am now reliably informed that he is in a military jail in Kampala,” she added.

“We, his family and his lawyers, demand to see him. He is not a soldier. Why is he being held in a military jail

Karua also joined in on the call for Besigye’s release and called out Uganda’s President Kaguta Museveni and his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto to ‘come clean on his safety and whereabouts.’

Kizza Besigye, who started as Uganda’s President Museveni’s personal doctor, is a human rights activist and the leader of the opposition in Uganda. Under his fold, he has mentored other leaders among them Bobi Wine who are taking up the mantle.

According to Uganda’s Daily Monitor, Besigye was last seen at an apartment on Riverside Drive in Nairobi’s Westlands estate where he had attended a meeting with unidentified people.

Officials from his party, the Forum Democratic Party, also reported that they had yet to hear from him since Saturday when he vanished mysteriously.
Being one of the biggest critics of Museveni, Besigye has been arrested several times before and in some instances suffered injuries.

His Abduction in Kenya came at a volatile time in the country when Kenyans are still reeling from a series of abductions purportedly being carried out by law enforcement officials.

A few weeks ago, the Kenyan Government was faulted for aiding in the deportation of Turkish nationals who had sought asylum in the country.

Source: Kenyans. Co. Ke