One of the political activists of Uganda’s oldest opposition party, the Democratic Party (DP), Rogers Ssegujja has gone missing fearing arrest over alleged linkages with rebel groups and opposition walk to walk protests in Kampala, the party has announced. The spokesperson of DP, Kenneth Paul Kakande told DP supporters in Buikwe on Saturday that Segujja has been a senior party activist operating in Kampala and other districts of Buganda region.

Kakande says that DP is not sure whether its cadre went to exile or he was abducted by president Museveni’s intelligence networks. The DP party spokesman says that Ssegujja’s whereabouts are still unknown to the DP members and the party’s youth desk in particular. Kakande says that Segujja’s relatives informed DP that the security operatives are threatening them too with arrest if they don’t produce Ssegujja.

Segujja, joined opposition in 2006 and his campaign strategies reportedly gave the ruling government some hard time in 2006, and 2011 presidential elections. Kakande says that Segujja was one of the key body guards of the DP presidential candidate in 2011 presidential polls, Norbert Mao. Kakande urged the central government to stop witch-hunting DP supporters since they are also Ugandans like others. Kakande further claims that DP has lost so many supporters who run to exile over fear of being imprisoned and or killed by the state agents.

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