[12] On 13 April 2020, Kakwenza was arrested by security operatives from his home in Iganga and detained for publishing his first book The Greedy Barbarian[3] which they believed was about the person of President Yoweri Museveni.

[4][14][16] In February 2021, Kakwenza sued the Government of Uganda for the torture he suffered at the hands of Chieftancy of Military Intelligence (CMI) security operatives.

[17][18] On 28 December 2021 Ugandan security forces arrested Kakwenza after he had insulted Muhoozi on Twitter calling him obese and ridiculed his military training.

He showed visible signs of torture from the Ugandan police, including bloodstains on his clothing, which was removed by Kakwenza and kept by his wife.

[27] Although the Judicial courts had retained his passport asserting that the premises for his request to vacate the country were weak, Kakwenza fled Uganda to neighbouring Rwanda in February 2022 fearing for his life.