What started with a night of fun with friends ended in tears for the relatives and friends of Johnson Nuunu of Rubaare Ntungamo district. According to his son Julius Kansiime, his father was in the company of his nephew Aaron Tumusiime when the unidentified men forced him into a car and drove away in the direction of Mbarara-Kampala road. "The day he was abducted, they implied there was an operation that was signaled. The time he was abducted, he was at the trading center and put into Noah white car but the person whom he was with did not identify the number plate of the car." Said, Julius Kansiime – Son of Missing Person.
Family members rushed to Rubaare Police Station but this also did not yield any results. The Police seemed to be in the know of the move even recording a statement was a tag of war. “The time they reported the case, the O.C of the Police Station wasn’t there so they called him. And so when they started reporting, he called Mbarara Police Station. So at that moment when he got a call from Mbarara Police Station, he could have received a command. So much as he came with a motive to help them to call the Policemen to seal off the road, he wanted even to give these people a car to follow the car that had taken my dad. So from the way he had the call, he lost motive to what he had proposed, so implying there was an order. So the man who came with a motive to help disappeared and left the people who had come to report the case and left them at the Police Station”.
Later the family received news that Nuunu could have been arrested by operatives from Police’s Flying Squad and later CMI. A visit to the Special Investigations Unit in Kireka did not bear fruits. “I just want to ask for a release of my dad and let him be presented to Court if he has a case to answer. He is diabetic, he is of an old age close to 60, so we would like to see justice.” The CMI Spokesperson Col. Paddy Ankunda said he was out of Station. The family was asked to seek an audience with the Criminal Investigations Directorate at Kibuli. Nuunu Johnson is not the first person to suspiciously go missing in Uganda in the recent past. Some have surfaced at Police Stations while the whereabouts of others remain unknown.
