By Nanteza Ruth Walusimbi
NATIONAL
The High Court in Kampala on Tuesday 14th October 2025 issued a habeas corpus order directing government to produce two missing Kenyan nationals Nicholas Oyoo and Bob Njagi dead or alive on October 21, 2025.
The activists reportedly went missing in Uganda after attending National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential campaign rallies in Eastern Uganda.
The order was issued by Justice Simon Peter Kinobe following a petition filed by human rights lawyers through Kiiza & Mugisha Advocates.
According to the petition, Oyoo and Njagi were allegedly abducted by men in military and civilian attire and taken to the Mbuya military facility, where they are believed to be held without access to legal counsel, family, or consular officials.
The case lists four top security officials as respondents: the Chief of Defence Forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Chief of Defence Intelligence and Security, the Inspector General of Police and the Attorney General of Uganda.
Koffi Atinda, a Kenyan human rights activist and friend of the detainees, swore an affidavit recounting the abduction.
“I witnessed my friends being taken in a Toyota Hiace van, by men in both military and civilian clothes. I later learnt they were taken to Mbuya military facility,” said Atinda.
NUP Secretary General, David Lewis Rubongoya, also filed an affidavit supporting the petition, calling on the government to produce the detainees “dead or alive” and explain the circumstances surrounding their disappearance.
The lawyers argue that the activists have been unlawfully detained beyond the constitutionally mandated 48 hours without being charged in court.
