Kyagulanyi’s missing brother found near his home

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National Unity Platform (NUP) party president Robert Kyagulanyi’s elder brother who allegedly went missing on February 17 this year has been found dumped near his home in Kisaasi, a Kampala suburb.

According to Kyagulanyi, Fred Nyanzi, the head of mobilization for the NUP, was found on Friday (February 21).

Both the Police and the army denied claims that their officers abducted him a day after he reportedly went missing.

“We don’t abduct because abduction is an offence. If we wanted to do anything, we can arrest because the phrase of adduction would mean every single person in a police cell is supposed to be released because all those would be abductees,” the Police spokesperson, Rusoke Kituuma, told New Vision then.

On Nyanzi’s whereabouts, Kituuma said: “I can’t comment on Nyanzi because I have no information.”

His Uganda People’s Defence Forces counterpart, Brig. Gen. Felix Kulayigye, also said he didn’t know about the missing NUP official.

“I have no idea,” he told New Vision.

Kyagulanyi had alleged that Nyanzi was abducted by heavily armed men and taken away in a drone to an unknown destination.

“He has been abducted on [sic] gunpoint from Kubbiri roundabout [in Kampala]. The regime is on [a] rampage, but we are not intimidated,” he said on X, formerly Twitter. 

The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Joel Ssenyonyi, also took to X and alleged that Nyanzi was abducted by gun-wielding men in plain clothes, who drove him off in a drone.

“We had just finished a meeting at our party headquarters and he drove off. He was waylaid and pulled out of his car around Kubbiri. Our legal team is doing everything possible to trace where he could have been taken,” Ssenyonyi said.

“The regime is clearly in panic, especially as we step up efforts to demand for the release of all political prisoners,” he added.