Bobi’s Bodyguard ‘Abducted By Armed Men’

A cloud of fear hovers around leaders of the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) after Achileo Kivumbi, the head of security at party headquarters was reportedly “abducted by heavily armed men believed to be State operatives, on Thursday evening as he returned home in Nansana.

The NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine, took to social media, particularly X, to express outrage and concern for Kivumbi’s safety.

According to Kyagulanyi, eyewitnesses described the abduction as “extremely violent, “with Kivumbi being 2beaten up and dragged into the vehicle.” He said that Kivumbi’s pleas to his abductors to allow him to inform his family members were ignored as he was driven away to an unknown destination.

Kyagulanyi said that the only item found at the scene of the abduction was Kivumbi’s “rosary, which he treasures and never left behind. The rosary was broken and left on the ground, speaking to the violent nature of the abduction.”

Bobi alleged that Kivumbi’s unnamed wife had approached police to report the abduction to them. Still, Kyagulanyi said, they refused to receive her report, reportedly stating, “CMI was responsible for the abduction and telling her to wait until he returns.”

Kivumbi joins several other NUP supporters who have fallen victim to state-sponsored arrests which later grow into enforced disappearances. To this date, dozens of NUP supporters remain incarcerated in various prisons, four years after the 2021 general elections.

Additionally, up to 18 NUP supporters are still missing since their arrests around the same time,  leaving their families and colleagues in a state of distress.

“…Museveni and his cohorts must remember that they are not the first to wield excessive power and abuse it with impunity,” an outraged Bobi said on X, “like their predecessors, they will surely, end up on the dustbin of history.”

Neither the Police nor the Army had made a statement regarding Kivumbi’s alleged abduction, by this report.