Kenya Police in Nairobi city
are investigating an incident where a Ugandan Member of Parliament went missing
in the city.
David Wandendeya Wakikona, the
Bududa Member of Parliament in Uganda was reported missing after he boarded an
Uber taxi from the Kilimani area to the City Center.
The matter was reported to the
police at the Kilimani Police Station by Talibet Kibet who was accompanied by Emmanuel
Opio.
“Mr Wakikona had checked in at
Samura Court along Argwings Kodhek road on October 3, 2022, together with his
colleagues and his whereabouts remain unknown,” a police report filed at
Kilimani Police Station reads in part.
At the time he boarded the
motor vehicle from Kilimani in Dagoretti North Sub County, he left behind his
colleagues Abdi Kisos, John Ngoya, Paul Busiro and Opio Emmanuel who is the
Clerk of the Ugandan National Assembly.
The politician was picked up
by a vehicle registration number KCS 466G which was being driven by Robert Wang’ombe,
police said.
The MP had asked the guard
manning the entrance to Samura Court to hail an Uber taxi on his behalf and his
destination was to be Tom Mboya Street in Nairobi County.
Wakikona is a member of the
National Resistance Movement (NRM) whose leader is Uganda’s President Yoweri
Museveni.
Born in November 1950, the
political leader joined politics in 2001, when he contested the parliamentary
seat of Manjiya County in Bududa District.
He has also served as the state
minister for Northern Uganda a position he was appointed to in June 2006.
He served in the position
until May 2011 and during a cabinet reshuffle, he was moved to the State
Ministry of Trade and Antiquities portfolio.
Since he was re-elected in the
January 2021 Uganda general election, has been fighting a case in court
challenging his academic qualifications.
His main opponent in the last
elections Wilson Watila moved to court challenging his win.
Watila garnered 2,177 votes
against 4,108 polled by Wakikona.
The former rejected the poll
results and petitioned Mbale High Court accusing his nemesis of electoral
malpractices, which denied him victory.
He also cited discrepancies in
the names on the academic documents of his rival, saying that he did not swear
a poll deed before his nomination.
Watila claimed that the
‘O’-Level certificate presented by his rival shows that he is David Wakikona
Wanendeya while the ‘A’-level certificate reads Wakikona Wanendeya David.
He also said that his
certificate from Soroti flying school carries Wakikona D. Wanendeya while his
advanced flying certificate reads Wakikona David.
But Wakikona’s lawyers of Tumusiime Kabega and Co. Advocates told the court that the affidavits that accompanied the petition were incurably defective since they were prepared by a commissioner of oaths who never had a valid practicing certificate. - Nation
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