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Bobi Wine scoffs at Ugandan govt for failing to present missing Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo
22nd October, 2025 01:15 PM
Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has scoffed at the President Yoweri Museveni-led government after it failed to present two abducted Kenyan activists, Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, before the court as ordered.
In an X post on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, Bobi Wine decried the violations of human rights with impunity from the Ugandan authorities.
“Like it did with comrade Sam Mugumya, whom it abducted 2 months ago and remains missing to date, the shameless Museveni regime has also denied having in its custody our Kenyan comrades Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo,” he declared.
The activists are said to have been abducted on October 1, 2025, while attending a National Unity Platform (NUP) rally in Kampala and remain missing.
The Ugandan government has denied knowledge of their whereabouts.
Njagi, the chairman of the Free Kenya Movement, and Oyoo, the group’s secretary-general, are said to have been picked up by plain-clothed security operatives in Kampala.
But despite widespread outcry and legal efforts, the government has yet to produce them in court.
Already, the High Court in Kampala ordered the state to present the two activists. Authorities failed to comply, prompting the court to postpone the matter to Wednesday, October 22, 2025, at 8 a.m. and demand a written explanation for their continued disappearance.
Bobi Wine blasted the regime’s defiance of court orders and accused it of reverting to dictatorship.
“A regime that came to power 40 years ago, promising to end gross human rights violations, is now blatantly engaging in even worse! We must end this impunity once and for all, fellow Ugandans!” the X post read.
Rights group petitions Museveni
The activists’ abduction has sparked international condemnation. In Kenya, civil society groups such as the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and the Defenders Coalition have staged protests, including outside the Ugandan High Commission in Nairobi.
Regional movements like Kongamano La Mapinduzi, the 6.25 Movement, Vocal Africa, and the NUP Kenya Chapter have also called for the duo’s release.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International Kenya has launched a petition urging President Museveni to disclose the whereabouts of Njagi and Oyoo, ensure their safety, and allow them to return to Kenya.
“Every moment without answers deepens the pain, the worry, and the injustice,” Amnesty said in the petition.
Legal interventions have also been launched. On October 6, Ugandan human rights lawyers Eron Kiiza and Kato Tumusiime filed a habeas corpus application at the High Court Civil Division, demanding the state account for the activists’ detention. Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces, Chief of Defence Intelligence, Inspector-General of Police, and Attorney General were named in the petition.
Despite these efforts, Ugandan authorities remain silent, further fuelling fears of state-sanctioned enforced disappearances.
Bobi Wine warned that the abductions should alarm every East African concerned about rising authoritarianism.
“Today, it is our Kenyan brothers. Tomorrow it could be anyone who dares to speak truth to power,” he warned.
