By Joseph Kiggundu
KAMPALA. Armed security operatives on Friday afternoon rearrested National Unity Platform (NUP) Deputy President for Buganda Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi.
This came a day after the High Court granted him bail in a terrorism case.
Political observers link Kivumbi’s latest arrest on the remarks he made in Butambala on Thursday evening ,a hours after his release ,where he vowed to intensify the opposition’s political campaign against the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) which has been in power for close to half a century.
According to NUP Secretary General David Lewis Rubongoya Kivumbi ,the former Butambala County legislator was intercepted at a roadblock in Mpigi District while travelling from Butambala ,bundled into a waiting Toyota Hiace commonly known as DRONE and taken to an unknown destination.
“Hon. Muwanga Kivumbi abducted from a roadblock in Mpigi, on his way from Butambala, and driven off to an unknown destination,” Rubongoya posted on X.
By Saturday morning ,Police and other security agencies had not commented on the arrest or disclosed Kivumbi’s whereabouts.
The arrest comes less than 24 hours after the International Crimes Division of the High Court released Kivumbi on a cash bail of 10 million shillings, with Justice Susan Okalany ruling that prosecutors had failed to justify his continued detention while investigations remained ongoing.
Kivumbi had spent nearly six months on remand after being charged with terrorism alongside 22 others over violence that erupted in Butambala District during the January 2026 general elections.
Speaking to supporters who welcomed him home on Thursday night, Kivumbi said he would take only two days off before resuming his political duties.
“I am going to rest for only two days. Beginning Monday, I am coming to the NUP headquarters as Deputy President for Buganda. I am going to announce a new war that will liberate this country. I am coming with new energy,” he said.
He also repeated allegations that he was the intended target of a security operation at his home in Butambala on the night of the elections.
“That night, they had come to finish me. They didn’t kill only seven people, they killed ten,” Kivumbi said.
The government has maintained that seven people were killed during election-related violence in Butambala.
Police have previously described those killed as individuals involved in attacks on Kibibi Police Station and the district Electoral Commission tally centre, while Kivumbi insists they were members of his campaign team including old women.