Activist Bob Njagi, who was detained alongside Nicholas Oyoo in Uganda for 38 days, has finally spoken out about the alleged 'fridge' in which they were held during their captivity.
Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Njagi explained that the 'fridge', which President Yoweri Museveni confirmed, was at a Special Forces Command Centre, one of several places where hundreds of Ugandans were being held without charge or trial.
Describing the matter as a crime against humanity, Njagi claimed that the detentions were being carried out under the authority of the Chief of Defence Forces of the Uganda People's Defence Forces and President Museveni's son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
However, he admitted that President Museveni may not have been aware of everything that was going on in the detention centre, as the team running it did not take orders from anyone else other than Muhoozi.
"They are being undertaken at the Special Forces Command Centre in Sarakasenyi, the training ground for the Presidential Security team and they call themself Next To None because they don't take commands from the Judiciary, Parliament or the Executive," Bob said.
"This is an armed militia that is operating under General Muhoozi. There are so many Ugandans there. I left over 150 of them in custody. People who are being held without being any court process. Some of them have even been detained for up to one year. That is what they call the fridge."
Museveni's Fridge
Speaking just hours after Oyoo and Njagi were released from captivity, President Museveni admitted that the two had been held by the Ugandan officials and even 'kept in a fridge' for a few days.
Museveni, who was being interviewed by UBC on Saturday night, boasted that the nation had great intelligence that had allowed them to capture the two Kenyans while attending a rally by Ugandan opposition leader Robert Kyagulani alias Bobi Wine.
"Of course, with our very good intelligence, we picked them up and they have been in the fridge for some days. Now, some Kenyan leaders rang me and said I should either put them in jail here or hand them back," the President admitted.
He further claimed that Njagi and Oyoo had had positioned themselves as experts in riots saying, "We arrested two Kenyans but I do not remember their names. They were working with Kyagulanyi’s group and they are experts in riots."
Njagi and Oyoo were released on the night of Friday, November 7, and handed over to Kenyan authorities at the Busia border crossing, 38 days after abduction on October 1.
Their release came even after both the Ugandan police and military denied holding the them, despite witness claims that they had been taken by armed security officers at a petrol station near Kampala.
