The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has publicly confirmed that Eddie Mutwe aka Edward Ssebufu, the personal bodyguard to National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, was abducted by the army and is under custody.
Muhoozi made the revelation via his official X (formerly Twitter) account, stating that Mutwe is being detained by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), though he did not specify under what charges or legal framework the detention was made.
Mutwe had been reported missing since Sunday evening after he was allegedly abducted by unidentified individuals in both civilian clothes and military fatigues from Kiwango trading centre in Mukono Municipality.
“He is in my basement. Learning Runyankore. You [Bobi Wine] are next!” Muhoozi wrote in one of several posts, some of which appeared to mock Mutwe and made references to tribal affiliations, language lessons, and physical appearance.
“I captured NUP’s military commander like a grasshopper (Nsenene). If they keep on provoking us, we shall discipline them even more.”
Mutwe was kidnapped by men dressed in civilian wear and military fatigue on Sunday evening at Kiwango trading centre, Goma Division, Mukono municipality. Mutwe and others had held a meeting at Namweezi village, a stone’s throw from Kiwango trading centre, from where he was captured.
Kyagulanyi later took to his social media accounts and demanded his immediate release.
“Eddie is looking very smart these days. The boys have tuned him well. He salutes Mzee’s picture every day before breakfast… I can’t release Eddie now. It will be unfair to me and him. He is learning Runyankore, and we are both training for Kabobi,” Muhoozi said.
“If you see Eddie’s head now, he looks like an egg. Totally clean. The beards were the first thing the boys removed. After he finished crying and urinating,” added Muhoozi who further threatened to castrate Mutwe.
“Next is Kabobi! I have never joked in my life. I don’t know why people think my tweets are jokes.”
The development comes shortly after Muhoozi’s recent restructuring within the UPDF’s intelligence wing, where Maj Gen James Birungi was replaced by Maj Gen Richard Otto as head of the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI).
