Kiryowa Kiwanuka: We Don’t Know Where the Missing Opposition Supporters Are

Defence Minister Kiryowa Kiwanuka has told Parliament that government does not know the whereabouts of several opposition supporters reported missing by the Opposition, adding that efforts will be made to trace them.

Kiwanuka was responding to the Leader of the Opposition Joel Ssenyonyi who demanded answers over a string of alleged abductions by security forces.

Ssenyonyi raised the matter during Tuesday's parliamentary session, telling the House that he and his colleagues have repeatedly flagged the issue of opposition supporters being picked up and held incommunicado for months.

"I, together with colleagues, have been raising the matter of Ugandans who are abducted, and we are very specific with the word abduction. What happens is not provided for in the law; that people are picked up, and for months their whereabouts are not known," he said.