Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has, for the first time, acknowledged that two Kenyan activists who were missing in his country for five weeks had been arrested.
Last month, eyewitnesses reported seeing Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo being forced into a car by masked uniformed men after a political event where they were supporting Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine.
News of their release was confirmed on Saturday.
In a live interview on Saturday evening, Museveni described the two men as “experts in riots” who had then been put “in the fridge for some days.”
Mr Njagi and Mr Oyoo were welcomed by supporters at the main airport in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Saturday.
“Thirty-eight days of abduction was not easy. We didn’t think that we were going to come out alive because we were being abducted by the military,” Mr Njagi said.
Kenya’s Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi said their release followed “sustained diplomatic engagement between Kenya and Uganda.”
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