Overview
- Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo were taken on October 1 near a petrol station in Kira after attending a rally for opposition leader Bobi Wine.
- The pair were released to the Kenyan ambassador at the Busia border and returned to Nairobi on Saturday after weeks of engagement by Kenyan officials.
- President Yoweri Museveni acknowledged the arrests, labeled the men “experts in riots,” and said Kenyan leaders urged him to either charge them or send them home.
- The activists said they were held under inhumane conditions in a military facility guarded by special forces, while Bobi Wine and local reports pointed to an Entebbe barracks known for past abuses.
- Human rights groups welcomed the release, cited eyewitness accounts of masked uniformed abductors, and said the case highlights a worsening pattern of cross‑border kidnappings in East Africa.