Immediately after Justice Simon Peter Kinobe of the Civil Division of the High Court dismissed the habeas corpus filed to recover two Kenyan activists Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo who were allegedly kidnapped in Uganda when they were campaigning for National Unity Platform(NUP) candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine), former Kenyan Law Society president Nelson Havi declared a war to rescue the two citizens of the two East African Community.
Justice Kinobe dismissed the application on grounds that the respondents who included the Attorney General, the Chief of Defence Forces(CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba and the Inspector General of Police(IGP) Abas Byakagaba had responded to court summons and confirmed that they don’t have both activities in their custody which resulted into Justice Kinobe’s conclusion that he cannot squeeze blood out of stone. He advised the family to file a complaint of a missing person with police.
Speaking to media in Kenya, Havi stated that Kenyans cannot rely on Ugandan judiciary to rescue their comrades because of the previous history where a Chief Justice was kidnapped and killed because of issuing an order to recover a missing person insisting that they are going to turn their guns now to their President William Ruto’s government.
Havi assured Musalia Mudavadi the Kenyan Prime Cabinet Secretary and cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs’ office and at the embassy of Uganda in Kenya to force them to produce the two activists.
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“When he was asked to comment on the issue of missing Kenyans in a foreign land, Musalia Mudavadi only told Kenyans to behave well when they are outside their countries which means he is not ready to help in recovering those two Kenyans,” Havi said.
Chris Baryomunsi the Ugandan Information and National Guidance minister told parliament that both activists are not in the custody of any security operators in the country even though Havi insists that they are being detained by Ugandan authority.
Apart from the statement he issued when the two men had just gone missing, Bobi Wine and his political party have gone mute even though earlier, there were talks with the Uganda Law Society to institute a lawsuit against the Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka which collapsed.
“Bobi Wine was advised to be careful with issues related to those two Kenyan because his handlers were scared that it could disorganise their campaigns. They agreed not to run a violent campaign as it was in 2021, so he was supposed to be contained,” a highly placed source in NUP told this website
He added that they were also scared that putting up a fight was going to place Bobi Wine in a tricky situation where the State could slap him with money laundering charges on claims that the two activists smuggled huge amounts of money into the country to help him to run his presidential campaigns.
Kira Municipality legislator Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda justified the narrative explaining that the reason why Ugandan government is placing a lot of pressure on Tassilo von Droste a German diplomat working under Civil Society in Uganda Support Programme (CUSP) and one of the leading technical advisors to the German embassy in Uganda is because, it is suspected that he is mobilizing money to run Bobi Wine’s campaigns.
“I was told that Museveni has been asking who is funding Bobi Wine’s campaigns because he does not see him in papers running out of fuel on the road or begging from his supporters. Because the plan was to financially cripple him, that’s why Norbert Mao used those fresh IPOD amendments to execute the orders,” Ssemujju said.
He added that Uganda’s security is on standby especially at Entebbe International Airport and no person is allowed to just enter with bags of money and if you enter with money. You are placed on security radar and all your movements are monitored because Museveni doesn’t want money in these campaigns because it can disorganise his plan of running a silent campaign.
Even though Bobi Wine and other Ugandan activists are scared, Havi and other Kenyans activists are threatening to storm Ugandan embassy in Kenya and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kenya to demand the release of their comrades noting that this is not the first time that they are being kidnapped by the State and spending more than 31 days missing.
