Recently released Kenyan activists, Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo have alleged that internal affairs minister Gen. Kahinda Otafiire’s brother, Amos Rwangomani who has been missing for months is being detained by the Special Forces Command (SFC) at their Kasenyi base.
The duo made the revelation while appearing on Citizen Tv Kenya on Wednesday night following their release after 38 days in detention allegedly partially at the Kasenyi SFC barracks before being transferred to Lunyo SFC barracks in Entebbe Municipality.
“We have the brother to the internal affairs minister Otafiire, he is looking for his brother, he was my cellmate, his brother has been in the same place for four months, the family don’t know where he is, they think he is dead, I left him in the cell” Bob Njagi said.
Njagi added, “He asked me to talk to you to make sure the message reaches the president because the president isn’t aware of some of these things, it’s his son Muhoozi who is undertaking these crimes against humanity at the Special Forces training grounds in Kasenyi”.
Nicholas Oyoo noted that over 150 prisoners are under detention at the Kasenyi facility including six Nigerians and Moses Kasiba, a former flying squad unit operative.
During the inaugural Sam Kalega Njuba Memorial Lecture organized by the Uganda Law Society in September, the outspoken minister mentioned Amos missing as he criticized alleged cases of illegal arrests, abduction and detaining of opposition politicians in the country.
“Recently I have heard of episodes of so and so has been arrested, six months this person has not been brought to court, so and so has disappeared, today somebody called me from Mbarara and said a gentleman called Amos Rwangomani, a big cadre who fights for Museveni tooth and nail, he’s been arrested” he said.
He added, “He was arrested from Mbarara and disappeared for three weeks, his family has gone to court, first day he wasn’t produced, second day he wasn’t produced, yesterday we went to court, do you know what the authorities told us? We don’t know where the man is”.
Minister Otafiire further questioned how a man of Amos Rwangomani’s stature could disappear into thin air.
“When people of my size, height and weight disappear without a trace, that’s a problem, how can a man big as I am disappear without trace” Otafiire questioned.
Following their release form detention after negotiations between Kenya and Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni admitted that the two Kenyan activists had indeed been under security detention describing them as “experts in riots” who had then been put “in the fridge for some days”.
However the Police and UPDF are yet to comment on the allegations by the two activists on the number of people allegedly detained at the SFC barracks.
