Kenyan activists have kidnapped in Uganda, Bobi Wine said

Two Kenyan Human Rights activists disappeared in Uganda after being removed by armed men while attending the campaign event of the Opposition Bobi Wine.

Bobi Wine strongly condemned “the abduction” of Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, saying that the pair had been “picked up at the Mafia” in a gas station and driving to an unknown destination.

Kenyan police spokesman Michael Mudiri told the BBC that he was not aware of the issue. Ugandan police have been approached to comment.

Bobi Wine, a pop star whose real name is Robert Kyagulayi, presents himself to the presidency in the elections of next year, contesting President Yoweri Museveni, 80, who has held power since 1986.

Bobi Wine said the two Kenyans were targeted by the Ugandan government for joining forces.

“We condemn the anarchy continues by the rogue regime and ask that these brothers be unconditionally released! The criminal regime apparently removed them simply to associate with me and expressed his solidarity with our cause!” He posted on X.

The Kenyan Vocal Africa Rights group has also sentenced reported kidnappings and demanded their unconditional release.

Another activist who witnessed what happened Wednesday afternoon said that four armed men forced the pair in a vehicle and launched.

“There were four. There was also a lady who was sitting before; they took Bob and Oyoo Ochieng, who is the secretary general of the Kenya free movement,” said the witness, who wanted to remain anonymous for security reasons, told Kenya Citizen TV.

He said that the two were inaccessible on the phone and that their fate was unknown.

The videos shared the Njagi online show actively participating in the Bobi Wine campaign and appears on stage next to the opposition chief.

Activists would have traveled in Uganda on Monday with a few Ugandans before connecting to the campaign.

Njagi was also recovered in Kenya last year by masked men during a wave of kidnapping that would have targeted government criticism in the country.

He remained missing for more than a month before resurfacing, after a court ordered the police to produce it. He then told the painful captivity conditions – isolated and denied food for most days.

Their latest disappearances reflect past incidents involving politicians and activists from the Eastern African region.

Earlier this year, activist Kenyan Boniface Mwangi and his Ugandan counterpart Agather Atuhaire were detained in Tanzania and held a stranger for days before being abandoned at their respective national borders.

They then told the abused brutality, including sexual torture in the hands of the Tanzanian authorities – allegations that the police rejected as “hearsay”.

Last year, another Ugandan opposition figure, Kizza Besigye, mysteriously disappeared in Nairobi to surface four days later in a military court in Uganda, where he faces accusations of betrayal.

Cases have since triggered a condemnation and general concerns that the governments of East Africa could collaborate to contain dissent.