The Uganda Police Force has launched a manhunt for Robert Ruzindana, a supporter of the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP), as investigations into the case involving Butambala County Member of Parliament Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi intensify.
Ruzindana 47, and a businessman who reportedly served as one of Kivumbi’s special agents and others still at large during the January 15, 2026 general elections, are alleged to possess information to the ongoing investigations in two counts of Illegal possession and concealment of election materials, which is contrary to Parliamentary Elections Act, 2005 – Section 76(e).
“We are looking for everyone with information regarding the incidents that transpired at Hon. Kivumbi’s home on January 15,2026”, Police spokesperson Racheal Kawala said that investigators are hunting for Ruzindana and others to record their statements about the missing electoral materials and the incidents that allegedly took place at Kivumbi’s residence on election night where 10 people lost their lives.
“We know them and our intelligence shall get them. A medical Doctor who connived with one of the suspects to escape from the hospital is also remanded at Kigo Prison to help in ongoing investigations,” added Kawala.
However, former Common Man’s Party (CMP) presidential candidate Mubarak Munyagwa Sserunga, popularly known as “Mugati Gwa Butter,” has alleged that outgoing Butambala County Member of Parliament and National Unity Platform (NUP) Deputy President for Buganda, Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi, was betrayed by his own political party.
Speaking during Sanyuka One on One programme on Tuesday, Munyagwa claimed that Kivumbi’s current legal troubles are not merely judicial but deeply political, rooted in internal betrayal within NUP.
