The National Unity Platform party presidential aspirant and Uganda’s opposition leader, Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, has blasted the country’s president, Yoweri Museveni, over claims of violation of human rights in Uganda.

Taking to X on Sunday, November 9, 2025, Bobi Wine fired back at Museveni for linking the abduction of two Kenyan nationals, Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, to his presidential ambitions in 2026.

Shortly after Njagi and Oyoo were released after 39 days of being missing on Friday night, November 7, 2025, Museveni claimed his government arrested the two for being experts in riots.

Speaking to Uganda’s national broadcaster on Saturday, November 8, 2025, Museveni praised Uganda’s intelligence for disrupting the plans of Njagi and Oyoo, whom he accused of working with Bobi Wine.

Experts in riots

“Here, we have very good intelligence. Like, for instance, the two Kenyans whom we arrested – they were working with Kyagulanyi’s group. We monitored them and found out they were experts in riots,” Museveni said.

Yoweri Museveni further warned against similar attempts. “I must warn the people doing that game here in Uganda. Here we normally defeat it by countering it in the way we did in November 2020,” he added.

However, responding to Museveni’s sentiments, Bobi Wine has stated that the Ugandan Head of State will have his day to pay for the crimes he has committed against the people of Uganda.

”In this video, Dictator Museveni confirms that our Kenyan brothers Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo were abducted and kept under incommunicado detention for 39 days for their association with us. He claims that they underwent all the torture and suffering because they’re ‘experts in riots’. SHAME UPON YOU,” Bobi Wine wrote.

The artist-cum-politician has further faulted the Ugandan government for failing to follow due procedure in the case of Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, including charging them in the court of law.

Human rights violations

”If they committed any offence, why were they not produced before the court and formally charged? Incidentally, these brothers confirmed that they were being detained with so many Ugandans and people from other countries.”

“Could those include our supporters who have been missing for 5 or 6 years now? We have a duty to fight and defeat this criminality. Thankfully, these confessions by Museveni will always be on record, and they will come in handy when the time comes to account for the crimes committed against the people of Uganda,” Bobi Wine added.

Meanwhile, Njagi and Oyoo were reunited with their families upon landing at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Saturday, November 8, 2025, after diplomatic discussions between both the Kenyan and Ugandan governments bore fruit.