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On 28th August, opposition Activist Sam Mugumya was reportedly by men wielding guns at a hotel in Mbarara who bundled him in a waiting car. Since then, his whereabouts remain unknown even when court directed the Chief of Defense Forces Gen Muhoozi and government to produce Mugumya dead or alive after his family applied for habeas corpus.
Since his disappearance, no government agency has claimed responsibility to have abducted or to know his whereabouts even when it’s now public knowledge that the army and other security agencies have been abducting opposition politicians in the famous marked and unmarked Toyota Hiace dubbed Drones a method which they used before and after the 2021 general elections.
Mugumya came to the limelight in the early 2000s with current Buhweju legislator Francis Mwijukye after being so close to four-time presidential candidate Dr. Kiiza Besigye who is equally behind bars in Luzira after being abducted from Nairobi last year in November.
He would later disappear in 2014 and and jailed in a Congolese Ndolo prison for over 8 years. He was released in March 2023 and by the time of his recent disappearance he was seeking to run for Member of parliament Rukungiri Municipality on PFF ticket.
While appearing at Next Radio today morning, Army’s director of information (Army Spokesperson) Maj Gen Felix Kulayigye laughed off the Mugumya disappearance and said it’s very wrong for the host to ask him about Mugumya’s whereabouts.
“….It’s not about my job as a UPDF director of information, it’s the job of the police, alright?, but two like i have told you, we all know Mugumya has a history of disappearance. Do you forget he disappeared and only surfaced in Congo. There’s precedence of a man called Mugumya disappearing. Now you’re asking me that he has disappeared….”-said Kulayigye
VIDEO: Sam Mugumya has a history of disappearing. – Maj. Gen. Felix Kulayigye#NextBigTalk #NextRadioUg #UgVotes2026 pic.twitter.com/LGwDe2xqfG
— Next Radio 106.1FM (@nextradio_ug) September 10, 2025
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