Orange Democratic Movement Secretary General Edwin Sifuna has slammed President William Ruto’s decision to address the Tanzanian Parliament despite the unresolved Kenyan activists’ abduction saga.

In a statement on his official X account on Monday, May 4, 2026, Sifuna described Ruto’s decision as a mockery directed at those activists by some Tanzanian MPs during parliamentary sessions.

“Kenyan activists were subjected to horrific brutality in Tanzania just the other day. The most heartbreaking part is the mockery directed at those activists by some Tanzanian MPs during parliamentary sessions,” Sifuna said.

On his part, Sifuna has challenged Ruto’s decision to address the same parliament even as Kenyans have yet to receive any official explanation of the abductions.

“Now President Ruto has been scheduled to address that very same parliament, even as we Kenyans have yet to receive any official explanation for that evil,” Sifuna said.

“Our Tanzanian brothers and sisters, know that we did not send him! We stand for justice, democracy, and the freedom of citizens in this region of ours, and we cannot be seen to endorse dictatorial leadership,” he added.

Boniface Mwangi’s abduction

Sifuna’s remarks come months after Human rights activist Boniface Mwangi and Uganda’s Agather Atuhaire said that they were beaten and sexually assaulted by Tanzanian security officers while in custody.

Boniface Mwangi said he had decided to speak despite the “shame and guilt of being sodomised with all manner of things”.

Mwangi said he was held in Tanzania after going to the country to show solidarity with detained opposition politician Tundu Lissu.

At a press conference in, Mwangi tearfully claimed that he was stripped naked, hung upside down, beaten on his feet and sexually assaulted while detained.

Suluhu’s remarks

Meanwhile, in another incident, Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan issued a warning to activists from Kenya that she will not allow them to “meddle” in her country’s affairs and cause “chaos”.

Her comments came after prominent Lawyer and Politician Martha Karua and rights campaigners were deported, preventing them from attending the court case of an opposition leader charged with treason.

“If they have been contained in their country, let them not come here to meddle. Let’s not give them a chance. They have already created chaos in their own country,” Samia said.

Human rights groups are concerned that the Tanzanian government is increasingly cracking down on the opposition ahead of elections in October.