The National Unity Platform party presidential aspirant and Uganda’s opposition leader, Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, has blasted the country’s president, Yoweri Museveni, over claims of violation of human rights in Uganda.
Shortly after Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo were released after 39 days of being missing on Friday night, November 7, 2025, Museveni claimed his government arrested the two for being experts in riots.
Speaking to Uganda’s national broadcaster on Saturday, November 8, Museveni praised Uganda’s intelligence for disrupting the plans of Njagi and Oyoo, whom he accused of working with Bobi Wine.
“Here, we have very good intelligence. Like, for instance, the two Kenyans whom we arrested – they were working with Kyagulanyi’s group. We monitored them and found out they were experts in riots,” Museveni said.
Yoweri Museveni further warned against similar attempts. “I must warn the people doing that game here in Uganda. Here we normally defeat it by countering it in the way we did in November 2020,” he added.
In a social media post on Sunday, November 9, 2025, Bobi Wine fired back at Museveni for linking the abduction of the two Kenyan nationals, to his presidential ambitions in 2026.
Wine, stated that the Ugandan Head of State will have his day to pay for the crimes he has committed against the people of Uganda.
”In this video, Dictator Museveni confirms that our Kenyan brothers Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo were abducted and kept under incommunicado detention for 39 days for their association with us. He claims that they underwent all the torture and suffering because they’re ‘experts in riots’. SHAME UPON YOU,” Bobi Wine wrote.
The artist-cum-politician further faulted the Ugandan government for failing to follow due procedure in the case of Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, including charging them in the court of law
”If they committed any offence, why were they not produced before the court and formally charged? Incidentally, these brothers confirmed that they were being detained with so many Ugandans and people from other countries.”
“Could those include our supporters who have been missing for 5 or 6 years now? We have a duty to fight and defeat this criminality. Thankfully, these confessions by Museveni will always be on record, and they will come in handy when the time comes to account for the crimes committed against the people of Uganda,” Bobi Wine added.
Speaking on Saturday, November 8, moments after their release, Njagi revealed that he was subjected to physical torture and deprived of food during the ordeal.
He also confirmed that they were being held by Uganda’s Special Forces Command in inhumane conditions and that they were unsure of making it out alive.
“I am delighted to be back home. 38 days of abduction were not easy; we did not think we would come out alive,” he said.
It has since emerged that former President Uhuru Kenyatta was at the centre the efforts that ensured safe release and repatriation of activists.
In a joint statement posted on their social media on Saturday, November 8, Vocal Africa, the Law Society of Kenya, and Amnesty International Kenya welcomed the release of Njagi and Oyoo. The agencies also hailed the role of Kenyatta in facilitating the safe return of the abducted activists.
“We extend our appreciation to the Kenyan and Ugandan governments at the highest level and the immediate former president of Kenya for their cooperation towards their safe return. We thank their families, Free Kenya movement colleagues, human rights defenders, journalists, diplomats, and active citizens who have tirelessly campaigned for this moment,”.
