Uganda’s Most Wanted Activist Kemitooma Speaks Out From Exile: “I Am No Assassin

Kemitooma — a name echoing across Uganda’s political activism circles like a siren is not a Kurdish agent, not a spy, and certainly not a militant plotting to kill President Yoweri Museveni, according to her own passionate and painful testimony. Instead, she says she is the latest victim of a “regime that mistakes protest for treason.”

What began as a feminist protest at Makerere University has now spiraled into what Uganda’s security agencies claim is an international coup plot, complete with Kurdish military camps, fake passports and secret Luzira prison visits to Rtd Col Kizza Besigye and his aide Obeid Kamulegeya all accused of treason .

But Kemitooma tells a very different story.

The Girl They Cant Find – Bit Claim To Know Everything About

According to a leaked dossier from unnamed military intelligence operatives, a “possibly Kenyan” woman under the alias Kemitooma had been deployed to act as a courier between Dr. Kizza Besigye and his alleged Kurdish backers.

The report claims she traveled using a forged passport under the name Siperia Saasiraabo, coordinated youth riots in Kampala and was on a mission to recruit 700 Ugandan youths for military training in the mountains of Kurdistan.

Shockingly, no one can seem to locate her. The same intelligence spies who say she’s a threat to national security don’t know where she lives. Some say she’s in DR.Congo, others whisper she’s slipped across to Tanzania.

Yet, Kemitooma’s side of the story is hiding in plain sight

The Feminist Who Refused To Bow

“I am not a ghost,” she told our reporter in an encrypted voice message. “I’m a Ugandan woman who stood up to power and for that, they want to label me a terrorist.”

Her activism started at Makerere, where she led a protest against skyrocketing tuition fees. The all-female march to the President’s office was met with tear gas, rubber bullets, and a media blackout. She was suspended, arrested, and finally fled to Tanzania her first taste of political exile.

While there, she worked with socialist movements, studied in Kenya, and continued advocating for pan-African unity. But in 2024, she returned home, believing the coast was clear.

She was wrong.

Match2Parliament And The Makings Of A New Enemy

In the protests that gripped Kampala mid-2024, Kemitooma was among the frontline organizers of the #Match2Parliament movement, a protest against corruption and youth disenfranchisement.

Shortly after, she was arrested, beaten, and thrown into Luzira Women’s Prison.

“That’s when they started spinning the story,” she says. “They called me Kenyan. They said I was a spy. They couldn’t find my name in the system — because I changed my colonial name. That’s all.”

She says the infamous passport number — A00204238 — was not fake, but merely bore her new identity. Her decision to rename herself Kemitooma was a symbolic protest against colonial legacies, not an attempt to hide.

But her visits to Dr. Besigye in prison set off alarm bells in the Intelligence community. From there, the spy allegations snowballed.
Military Intelligence alerted Luzira prisons authorities to arrest her on sight.

Kurdistan Conspiracy or Crackdown on Dissent?

The intelligence report reads like a bad thriller novel. It links Kemitooma to Dr. Besigye, then to Kurdish guerrilla groups, then to youth riots, and eventually to a coup plot.

“I have never been to Kurdistan. I don’t even know anyone from there,” she insists. “They are using this to silence dissent. If you speak out, you are labelled foreign, dangerous, or both.”

Meanwhile, 36 FDC Katonga youths allegedly en route to Kurdistan who were arrested in Kenya with the alleged help of Kemitooma, their case of treason and terrorism was recently dismissed by the  International Crimes division of High Court in Kampala for lack of evidence from the state prosecutions.

Into Exile, Again

After receiving threats, surveillance, and whispers of a sealed arrest warrant, Kemitooma disappeared — not to Kurdistan, but to safety.

“I couldn’t stay and be paraded in Museveni’s kangaroo courts,” she said. “I will not let my voice be silenced, but I must live to continue speaking.”

As of press time, her exact location remains unknown.

A Symbol Or A Threat?

To some in government, she is a dangerous radical. But to others especially young women, students and exiled activists — she is becoming a symbol of resistance.

And her parting shot?

“I am not a criminal. I am a dreamer who believes Uganda can be free  even if I have to do it from exile.”