Sarah Nantumbwe Ddamulira, wife of missing National Unity Platform (NUP) supporter John Ddamulira, has died.
The news of her passing was announced by NUP Secretary General David Lewis Rubongoya through his official X account on Saturday morning.
“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 remained missing ever since.
Sarah's death comes amid continuing uncertainty surrounding the fate of several supporters of the opposition National Unity Platform who disappeared during and after the politically charged period leading up to the 2021 general elections.
It is not the first time the spouse of a missing NUP supporter has died before receiving answers about the whereabouts of a loved one.
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.
Kibalama was last seen on June 3, 2019, at his workplace on Lumumba Avenue in Kampala. His vehicle, a Toyota Prado, was later found abandoned along the Gayaza–Kampala road. Witnesses claimed they saw armed men force him into a Toyota Hiace van.
Kibalama's father also died in February this year without learning what had happened to his son.
Since the People Power movement captured the national political imagination in 2019 and later evolved into NUP, the party has consistently raised concerns about supporters who were allegedly abducted or disappeared by security operatives.
While many of those initially reported missing later resurfaced in detention facilities, courts or were released, several cases remain unresolved years later, leaving families without answers.
The issue has remained a central grievance for the opposition, even as prominent party figures have themselves faced detention and prosecution.
In recent years, NUP 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 all spent time in detention amid what the party describes as a broader pattern of targeting opposition activists and leaders.
Funeral and burial arrangements for Sarah Nantumbwe Ddamulira are expected to be announced in the coming days.