FRIDAY BULLETIN—A family is appealing to the government to intervene in securing justice for its kin detained in Uganda.
For nearly three weeks, the whereabouts of a Nairobi resident Jaffar Ali remain unknown following his detention by Ugandan security officials after he travelled to the country to attend a court hearing of his brother Muhammad Ali, one of the renditioned Kenyans.
He was arrested together with Anwar Awadh a brother of another rendition Kenyan Omar Awadh as they were leaving the court premises.
Jaffar was a regular visitor to the neighbouring country where he used to make visit to his detained brother at the Luzira Maximum Prison and also attend court sessions.
The family lawyer said that the police claimed that the duo were noting down number plates of vehicles around the court premises but Ugandan media reports indicated that they were arrested for spying on senior government officials.
“If they have evidence against them, they should take them to court instead of subjecting the family to a life of distress,” a distraught Fauzia Ali told the Friday Bulletin.
She spoke on the pain and agony which the family had gone through in the last few weeks in the search for their loved one.“We have not been able to see him as they have been moving him from one police station to another. No details are even forthcoming on why there are holding him,” she said.
The family had been informed that he was being held at a security facility in the eastern town of Jinja but when the mother went to enquire, she was instead subjected to a four-hour interrogation session and later advised to immediately leave the country “for the safety of her son.”
“We are only left for our government to come to our assistance and ensure that its citizen gets justice,” she said.
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