KHRC to stage mass protest, storm Ugandan Embassy over missing Kenyan activists
By Joel Masibo, October 27, 2025Kenya Human Rights Commission has announced plans to storm the Ugandan Embassy in Nairobi on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, to force the release of two Kenyan activists, Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, who were abducted in Kampala earlier in October 2025.
In a notice issued on Saturday night, October 26, 2025, KHRC will also extend the protests by paralysing operations at the Malaba and Busia border points on the same day.
”How long will we let William Ruto and Yoweri Museveni trade our lives for power? They abduct our comrades and think fear will silence us. On October 28, we answer with thunder. Streets packed. Borders shut. Embassy surrounded. They must free Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo,” KHRC said.
The KHRC declaration comes days after the National Unity Platform party presidential aspirant and Uganda’s opposition leader, Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, blasted the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) for failing to disclose the whereabouts of the two abductees.
Bobi Wine’s remarks followed the UPDF’s official denial of having the activists in their custody, as per a sworn statement filed in the High Court of Uganda at Kampala (Civil Division).
Njagi and Oyoo went missing on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, in Kampala, as they were taken away by armed operatives at a petrol station in Kireka, shortly after attending Bobi Wine’s political event. Their abduction has sparked outrage from opposition leaders and human rights defenders regionally and the United Nations human rights defenders.
”Like it did with comrade Sam Mugumya, whom it abducted 2 months ago and remains missing to date, the shameless Museveni regime has also denied having in its custody our Kenyan comrades Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, whom it abducted in Kampala on 1st October! A regime that came to power 40 years ago, promising to end gross human rights violations, is now blatantly engaging in even worse! We must end this impunity once and for all, fellow Ugandans!” Bobi Wine took to X on Wednesday, October 22, 2025.
In a return to a writ of habeas corpus filed under Miscellaneous Cause No. 0281 of 2025, Colonel Silas Kamanda, the Director at the Joint Staff Legal Services of the UPDF, stated that the military has no record of detaining the two individuals. The habeas corpus application was filed by Oyoo and Njagi’s representatives, seeking to compel the state to produce them in court and justify their detention.