LOP Ssenyonyi wants police deployment at Kyagulanyi’s home clarified

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The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament (LOP), Joel Ssenyonyi, has asked the State to clarify the “heavy deployment” of Police officers at the home of former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi in Magere, Wakiso district.

He made the call on Thursday (March 5) while addressing the media at the National Unity Platform (NUP) headquarters in Makerere-Kavule, Kampala.

Kyagulanyi, who is the NUP leader, rejected the result of the recent general elections, in which President Yoweri Museveni won a seventh term in office by a landslide.

“We have had some few spokespersons of government previously say, ‘Well, no one is looking for the honourable Kyagulanyi; he is free to be at his home' and so on, but the siege continues to happen. The military and police are still heavily deployed outside his home [and] inside his compound as well,” Ssenyonyi said.

“The State has yet to tell us what they are doing there. We want to know, and if there is no clarity about what you are doing there, please leave.”

Last month, police spokesperson Kituuma Rusoke said that “the security presence around the precincts of Kyagulanyi’s home is purely for security reasons and in the interest of national security.”

Rusoke dismissed suggestions that the deployment implied criminal wrongdoing by Kyagulanyi, who has been in “hiding” since the elections were held on January 15, 2026.

“If he commits a particular offence, the Police will certainly take action either by inviting him or arresting him. But as of now, the presence there is an operational posture for security purposes,” he told the media during the weekly press conference at the Police headquarters in Naguru, Kampala, on February 9, 2026.

Recently, the outgoing Mawokota South MP and National Resistance Movement party newcomer, Yusuf Nsibambi, implored Kyagulanyi to come out of ‘hiding’ to help resolve his “misunderstandings” with the government.

“Those of you who can reach the NUP president, please advise him to return. Mr President, we need you here. Efforts to secure the release of those many dubbed 'political prisoners’ are underway,” he said at the Uganda Law Society weekly hybrid press and public engagement with the “radical new bar” in Kampala on February 26.

He then implored Kyagulanyi to return home. “Your Excellency, we need you back home. We cannot help resolve your misunderstandings with the government while you are away.”