John Ddamulira was reportedly abducted from his shop at Kisekka Market on November 21, 2020, and has not been seen since.
Sarah Nantumbwe Ddamulira, the wife of missing National Unity Platform (NUP) supporter John Ddamulira, has died after spending nearly five years searching for answers about her husband’s disappearance.
The news of her passing was announced on Saturday morning by NUP Secretary General David Lewis Rubongoya through his official X account.
“Sadly, Sarah passed on this morning. Like other family members of those disappeared, Sarah has spent the last five years moving everywhere looking for her husband. It is most painful that she has passed on without finding any answers,” Rubongoya wrote.
John Ddamulira was reportedly abducted from his shop at Kisekka Market on November 21, 2020, and has not been seen since. His disappearance remains one of several unresolved cases involving supporters of the opposition party during and after the 2021 general election period.
Sarah’s death adds to the growing number of families affected by unresolved disappearances, many of whom continue to live with uncertainty over the fate of their loved ones.
Her passing comes months after another similar tragedy. In November 2025, Monica Nabukenya Kibalama, 38, the wife of long-time NUP supporter John Bosco Kibalama, was found dead in her bathroom at her home in Seeta Kiwalimu, Magere.
John Bosco Kibalama disappeared on June 3, 2019, after he was last seen at his workplace on Lumumba Avenue in Kampala. His Toyota Prado was later recovered abandoned along the Gayaza–Kampala road. Witnesses claimed they saw armed men force him into a Toyota Hiace van.
Earlier this year, Kibalama’s father also died without learning what had happened to his son.
Since the rise of the People Power movement in 2019 and its transition into the National Unity Platform, the party has repeatedly raised concerns about supporters who were allegedly abducted or disappeared by security operatives.
While some of those initially reported missing later resurfaced in detention centres, courts, or were eventually released, several cases remain unresolved, leaving families in prolonged anguish and uncertainty.
The issue continues to be a major concern for the opposition party, which maintains that a number of its supporters remain unaccounted for years after their disappearance.
In recent years, several senior NUP figures, including deputy spokesperson Alex Waiswa Mufumbiro, head of security Achileo Kivumbi, and Robert Kyagulanyi’s chief civilian bodyguard Edward Ssebuufu, popularly known as Eddie Mutwe, have faced detention and prosecution in what the party describes as a wider pattern of targeting opposition activists and leaders.
Funeral and burial arrangements for Sarah Nantumbwe Ddamulira are expected to be announced by the family in the coming days.
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