Lyomoki Found In Nairobi

Sep 27, 2002

JUST how the workers MP Dr. Sam Lyomoki landed in the hands of Kenyan police in Nairobi remains a mystery.

By Felix Osike
& reuben Olita in Nairobi

JUST how the workers MP Dr. Sam Lyomoki landed in the hands of Kenyan police in Nairobi remains a mystery.

Nobody knows. Even the MP himself says he cannot recount how he travelled over 500kms to the Kenyan capital where police questioned him yesterday.

Ugandan Police chief Maj. Gen. Katumba Wamala was equally puzzled but said it was good he had been found alive.

“The good news is that we have traced the MP in Nairobi through our friends (Interpol) there. He was at the Central Police Station recording a statement,” Katumba said yesterday.

Nairobi Central Police Station is on Tom Mboya Street where the MP was reportedly found unconscious.

He told the police that he was drugged by people he could not identify. It is not clear how the MP was taken to city’s downtown street, a renown hideout for thugs in Nairobi. The Kenya police is investigating the matter.

Lyomoki was not hurt and was due to fly home late last night. He went missing on Tuesday, days after he said his life was in danger.

His car was found a few metres off the road near Nakalama Primary School, about 4kms from Iganga town.

In 1997, MP Tom Bagalana (Bunya South) also disappeared from his home in Kansanga and was found in Kenya.

Katumba said he had got in touch with the Uganda High Commissioner in Nairobi, Francis Butagira, over the matter.

The Kenyan government yesterday handed over Lyomoki to the embassy staff for repatriation to Uganda.

Lyomoki, who is also the Secretary General of the Medical Workers Union, told the Kenyan police that he wanted to voluntarily return home. He was expected to be flown back last evening.

“Preliminary information is that the MP is not hurt, and he claims he doesn’t know how he ended up in Nairobi,” added Katumba.

“It is a good thing for the family, Parliament and the nation that we have been able to find him,” he added.
He said Lyomoki’s statement would be forwarded to Uganda for further investigations.

Lyomoki is expected to record another statement on arrival.

He said the MP could be given protection if the Police deemed so.

Anxiety was rising among the health workers, who had laid blame on the labour minister Zoe Bakoko Bakoru and trade unionists opposed to Lyomoki.

The CID has opened general inquiries on the alleged death threats. Lyomoki claims he has video-tape evidence of Bakoko’s clandestine meetings with six trade unionists.
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