Ono Bwino can exclusively report that Charles Bukenya Muvawala is among the individuals that Ugandan intelligence is closely monitoring especially at this time when opposition strongman Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine) is reenergizing his support base in United States of America.
Since March 2026, Bobi Wine has been in United States together with his immediate family claiming that he is on official duties, he is also promising to come back to Uganda after executing these duties.
Because he is a person of interest, Ugandan State deployed highly trained intelligence officers to follow his movements and those close to him.
Highly placed sources in security told Ono Bwino that Muvawala became a target because of his background in mobilizing funds to facilitate Bobi Wine’s political struggle using his position as the vice president of the Uganda North America Association (UNAA) and vocal supporter of the National Unity Platform (NUP).
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Sources said that in 2025, the Ugandan government through Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA) froze a bank account with millions of shillings after investigations revealed that the money was being deposited on the said bank account to facilitate NUP’s political activities.
Investigations established that Muvawala together with Dr. Daniel Kawuma, the head of the NUP Diaspora chapter in United States were behind the bank account and to save their money, Muvawala was sent to Uganda to present all the necessary documents to prove to the authorities that the money on the said bank account was his.
Sources said that it was the reason why Muvawala was kidnapped in 2025 when he touvhed Ugandan soil.
He spent weeks in security detention until he was dumped in Buliisa district without any criminal charges slapped on him.
Even though he was advised to leave the country since he is also a United States of America citizen, Muvawala desperately remained in the country while struggling to rescue the money he collected to facilitate NUP political mobilization.
He was again arrested in early 2026 when he was at Bobi Wine’s political rally and he was charged with illegal filming of a policeman and remanded to Luzira prison but he was released.
Ono Bwinoe understands that Ugandan traders operating in South Sudan are also under intelligence surveillance and sources claim that every week, they collect a lot of funds which are sent back to Kampala to facilitate Bobi Wine’s political struggle.
Sources said that the practice is the same in other countries especially in the middle-east, Europe and South Africa and it is the reason why Bobi Wine was not bothered by with the controversial Inter Party Organization for Dialogue (IPOD) amendments which denied his party from benefiting from the said money.
NUP’s Secretary for diaspora affairs Marvin Saasi claimed that much of the money his party presidential candidate used in the 2026 presidential elections was mobilized from Ugandans abroad and it is the reason why President Museveni is now targeting them with the controversial sovereignty bill 2026.
