Prime Cabinet Secretary and Foreign Affairs Minister Musalia Mudavadi has stated that President William Ruto personally intervened to have activists Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo released from Uganda.
While speaking to the media in Western Kenya after the Malava Constituency by-election campaigns on Friday, November 21, 2025, the Prime CS said that the Head of State called his Ugandan counterpart, Yoweri Museveni, to secure the release of the detained activists who had spent 38 days incommunicado.

Musalia continued to state that he also wrote a letter to the Ugandan government to have the activists, who had stayed behind bars for long after being abducted in the country while campaigning for Uganda’s presidential candidate and opposition leader Bobi Wine, released.

“Mimi binafsi niliandika barua na raisi wa Kenya William Ruto pia aliongea na kiongozi mwenzake kutoka Uganda, ili waachiliwe,” Mudavadi said.

Release of detained activists

He went on to dismiss claims that other people outside government were involved in the release and repatriation of the two abducted Kenyan activists, stating that after their release they were handed to Kenya’s High Commissioner to Uganda, Joash Maangi, who then flew them to the Kenyan border in Busia.

According to Musalia, had other people had a hand in the release of the two activists as claimed, then they would have handled the matter to completion, since the Kenyan High Commissioner to Uganda, Maangi, works for the government and not for private individuals.

Nevertheless, Mudavadi stated that if there is anybody who was involved in the release of the Kenyans, then their efforts are commendable, and he appreciates them.

Plea to kenyans

He went ahead to urge Kenyans that the Kenyan Constitution stops applying when one leaves the country, and once they are on foreign soil, Kenyan laws cease to apply, and one should be ready to conform to the laws of the host country. Should one break them, they will be judged according to the laws of that land.

This comes weeks after the release of Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, who, after their release following days of public pressure, together with civil groups and their families, came out hailing former Head of State Uhuru Kenyatta for playing a role in their release.