Kagwanja slams Cherargei over remarks on Kenyan activists
By Aloys Michael, November 11, 2025President and Chief Executive of the Africa Policy Institute, Peter Kagwanja, has scoffed at Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei over his recent comments on Kenyan activists who were abducted in Uganda.
In an interview on a local TV station on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, Kagwanja decried the rising fascism in East Africa, cautioning political leaders such as Cherargei against even fueling it further due to negative spiels.
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“We cannot forgive the Cherargei of this world. Some of these speeches we are getting from our leaders are dangerous. Kenya, we have a problem. The primary duty of a State is to protect lives,” he said.
This comes amid growing concerns over the surging threat of terror in the EA region, with a section of leaders and scholars urging the government to protect its citizens.
But for Cheragei, he accuses the activists of continued interference with the politics of foreign countries and engaging in acts that jeopardise the sovereignty of those nations.
Cherargei remarks
Speaking during a Sunday, November 9, 2025, service at the PAG Church in Kapsabet town, Cherargei said that foreign countries should not tolerate people who use the name of human rights protection to interfere with and try to destroy the security of the countries they visit.
“I want to warn our activists who are busybodies. Stop exporting your bad manners to other countries. Stop it. Uganda and Tanzania are sovereign countries,” Cherargei said.
He added that those who can be proven to do so deserve to be severely punished and repatriated back home.
The statements came a day after activists Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo returned to Kenya following 38 days of detention in Uganda.
“We thank President Museveni for accepting to release Njagi and Oyoo. You can’t go to someone’s house to cause trouble.”
“I want to ask President Samia and Museveni if you get any busy bodies, activists who want to destabilise the sovereignty of your country. Finya hao, warudishe nyumbani tuwamalizie,” added the Nandi legislator.
Njagi and Oyoo had travelled to Kampala to support opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, when they went missing on October 1, 2025. Reports indicated that the two Kenyan nationals were abducted by armed men in Kira Municipality, Wakiso District, Uganda.
The two were freed on Saturday, November 8, 2025, and handed over to the Kenyan High Commission in Uganda.
Kenya’s Foreign Affairs minister Musalia Mudavadi said the release followed a “sustained diplomatic engagement between Kenya and Uganda” where “both governments maintained open and constructive communication that has culminated in the safe release of our nationals.”