Kenya investigating how Uganda opposition figure was 'abducted'

21/11/2024 19:04

        Kenya's government has said it was investigating how a prominent Ugandan opposition leader was spirited out of Nairobi this week, amid growing criticism that it had failed to protect foreign dissidents on its soil.
        
        Kizza Besigye, a longtime rival of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, disappeared in the Kenyan capital on Saturday. He reappeared on Wednesday at a military court in neighbouring Uganda, where he was charged with offences including the illegal possession of firearms.
        
        Uganda's government spokesperson said on Wednesday it did not carry out abductions and that arrests abroad were done in collaboration with host countries.
        
        However in a television interview on Wednesday evening, Korir Sing'oei, principal secretary at Kenya's foreign ministry, said Besigye's detention - which he referred to as an abduction - was "not the act of the Kenyan government".
        
        Sing'oei said the Kenyan interior ministry had begun an investigation into how Besigye had been "forcefully removed from premises in our country and taken to Uganda".