Ugandan academic cum political activist, Dr Stella Nyanzi, has fled to Nairobi, Kenya.
Dr Nyanzi, a former research fellow at Makerere University ran for Kampala Woman MP seat in last month’s general election.
The development was confirmed by her lawyer, Prof George Luchiri Wajackoyah, who cited political persecution by President Yoweri Museveni’s government for the move.
Prof George Luchiri Wajackoyah, in an interview said she is seeking political asylum in Nairobi Kenya where she arrived by bus on Saturday.
“The abductions and detentions of political actors were getting closer to me, my children have been targets of police trailing, I just left prison in February last year and I don’t want to go back,” Dr Nyanzi told Nation Africa in a telephone interview.
She crossed the Uganda-Kenya border “in disguise” to avoid detection by security agents. Her children are also “in a safe house” in Nairobi.
