Kenyas government said it was investigating how a prominent Ugandan opposition leader was spirited out of Nairobi this week, amid growing criticism that it had failed to protect foreign dissidents on its soil.
Kizza Besigye, a longtime rival of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, disappeared in the Kenyan capital on Saturday. He reappeared on Wednesday at a military court in neighbouring Uganda, where he was charged with offences including the illegal possession of firearms.
Ugandas government spokesperson said on Wednesday it did not carry out abductions and that arrests abroad were done in collaboration with host countries.
However in a television interview, Korir Singoei, principal secretary at Kenyas foreign ministry, said Besigyes detention - which he referred to as an abduction - was not the act of the Kenyan government and was being investigated by the interior ministry.
The Ugandan courts charge sheet alleges Besigye was found with a pistol and eight rounds of ammunition in the Riverside neighbourhood of Nairobi, where it claimed he had been seeking support to undermine the security of Ugandas military.
