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Martha Karua accuses EAC presidents of complicity in human rights abuses, citing the detention of Dr. Kizza Besigye and regional abductions.

Narc Kenya leader Martha Karua has launched a scathing attack on East African Heads of State, accusing them of a conspiracy of silence as human rights violations in Uganda reach fever pitch.
In a press statement that reverberated across the region, the "Iron Lady" of Kenyan politics did not mince her words. She termed the ongoing abductions and detention of opposition figures in Kampala as a "Pan-African emergency" and accused President William Ruto, President Yoweri Museveni, and President Samia Suluhu of forming an "unholy alliance of oppressors."
Karua’s outburst follows the deterioration of veteran Ugandan opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye’s health in military detention. Besigye, who was abducted in Nairobi in November 2024 and smuggled back to Uganda, has become the face of the region’s shrinking civic space. Karua, who is Besigye’s lawyer, revealed that he is being denied proper medical care despite visible frailty.
"They kidnapped him from our soil," Karua thundered. "The Kenyan government colluded with the Ugandan dictatorship to traffic a human being. And now, as he rots in a military dungeon, the East African Community (EAC) summit is silent. This is not a community of nations; it is a cartel of dictators."
The implications of Karua’s statement go beyond one man. It highlights a dangerous trend where security agencies in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania are operating as a single unit to crush dissent. The "Nairobi Protocol"—an unwritten rule that Nairobi was a safe haven for exiles—has been shredded.
For Kenyans, the message is chilling: if a high-profile figure like Besigye can be snatched from an upscale Nairobi apartment, no one is safe. Karua is calling for a citizens' awakening. "We must refuse to be the generation that watched East Africa turn into a police state," she warned. "Silence is complicity."
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