Missing activist leaves country after being released

An activist Wyclef Kagimu who went missing earlier this month has been found but he has quickly left the county fearing for his life, his family has said.

Kagimu's mother said his son was detained while protesting results of the just concluded general elections in which incumbent President Yoweri Museveni trounced his closest rival Dr. Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change.

"It was no one other than state operatives who took him," Kagimu's mother said.

She said that Kagimu was picked because he took part in a peaceful protest against the election results which he thought were not fair.

"I am not against the government. I am not against the military or anybody in government. I am against the results announced by the Electoral Commission," Kagimu said.

However, the police and other state agencies have declined to officially comment. The police's media office did not reply to questions and phone calls on Sunday.

Kagimu, a former NRM supporter, says that he was blindfolded and bundled into awaiting to an unknown location where he has been held for several days. He said his kidnappers did not demand for anything from him and his family.

However, he says after several days of being held in solitary confinement, he was dropped off in the cover of darkness in an unknown place from where he was helped by residents to locate his home in Maganjo, a city suburb.

Security forces have long been accused by rights bodies for arresting and detaining opposition supporters even when they carry out peaceful protests. The opposition leader Dr. Besigye himself been arrested and detained at Moroto prisons on charges of treason.