Nicholas Oyoo Stories
Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo describe being abducted, held in a freezer, denied family contact, and subjected to starvation and torture during a 38-day...
After being held and tortured in Kampala, Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo launch legal action against Uganda to challenge cross-border political repressio...
Activist Bob Njagi highlighted alleged harsh detention conditions and political arrests, noting that over 150 people remain in custody without trial.
Museveni alleged that the two had connections to opposition leader Bobi Wine and were suspected of plotting anti-government protests.
Amnesty International-Kenya Executive Director Houghton Irungu said Uhuru’s diplomatic intervention played a key role in their release from detention...
Nicholas Oyoo and Bob Njagi disclosed that they had endured both physical and psychological torture during their detention.
The two activists were allegedly abducted by armed men in Uganda and held incommunicado amid a tense presidential campaign season.
They are urging the National Assembly to investigate the circumstances that led to the arrest and abduction of Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, determine...
Maraga slammed both the Ugandan and Kenyan governments, accusing them of complicity through silence and failure to protect citizens from cross-border...
He pointed to cases where government officials have struggled to provide clear information on the whereabouts of Kenyans detained by a neighbouring co...
Police in Nairobi blocked human rights activists from storming Foreign Affairs CS Musalia Mudavadi’s office as they demanded answers over the alleged...
Rights organisations in Kenya are sounding the alarm over the deteriorating health of activists Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, who were abducted in Kamp...
EALS demanded immediate disclosure and accountability, urging Uganda to account for Oyoo and Njagi, Tanzania to provide a transparent account of Polep...
In Nairobi, civil society group Vocal Africa has written to the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, expressing deep concern over the activists’...
On Tuesday, Amnesty International, the Law Society of Kenya, and Vocal Africa launched a global petition urging Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to s...
The statement was issued in response to a habeas corpus order requiring the UPDF to produce the activists, dead or alive, within seven days, a deadlin...
Amnesty International Kenya, the LSK and Vocal Africa are now rallying global support through an online campaign urging citizens worldwide to write to...
Both the Uganda Police Force and the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) have denied knowledge of the activists’ detention or location.
Bobi Wine, who leads the National Unity Platform (NUP), said the case highlights a long-standing pattern of arbitrary arrests and disappearances of op...
The Uganda Police, however, have since refuted claims that the two activists are in state custody. During a press briefing, ACP Rusoke Kituuma said th...
On Tuesday, the families, accompanied by activists, visited the KNCHR offices in Nairobi to file official statements regarding the disappearance.
In a statement read by representatives of the three organisations and family spokesperson Nobert Ochieng, they said eyewitness accounts indicate the t...
Nicholas Oyoo and Bob Njagi were reported apprehended by military operatives in Kaliro District, eastern Uganda, while accompanying Ugandan opposition...
UNP Spokesperson ACP Rusoke Kituuma added that they had no information on whether Njagi and Oyoo have been reported as missing persons.
The Mombasa Comrades and Activists Forum claims that Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, both well-known human rights defenders, were abducted and are being...
In a statement dated October 3, 2025, the Commission said it had requested Uganda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to coordinate with local authorities t...
The amendments, currently facing a legal challenge, were widely seen as a strategy to help long-serving officials retain control.
Njagi and Oyoo, who had joined NUP presidential candidate Bobi Wine’s campaign on Tuesday, were reportedly forced into a vehicle and had their phones...
In a statement on Wednesday, Free Kenya Movement National Coordinator Felix Wambua confirmed that the two were apprehended at Stabex Filling Station i...
The group criticised the government's fiscal austerity measures, which they claimed were ineffective in addressing widespread corruption.
