Retired boxer Justin Juuko has been missing for 14 days.
His party, the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) says Uganda’s security forces are holding him.
Police have neither denied nor confessed to holding Juuko.
Juuko was arrested along with Garrypaul Mayanja, an FDC activist in Masaka, a district in south-central Uganda.
The two were briefly detained at the area police station before being moved to Kampala.
They were conducting training for polling agents ahead of the general election on January 14, the FDC said in a statement.
Nicknamed ‘Destroyer’, Juuko is a decorated boxer. Some of his accolades include the World Boxing Council (WBC) International super featherweight title, African Boxing Union (ABU) light welterweight title, the North American Boxing Federation (NABF) super featherweight title among others.
The 48-year-old also won gold for Uganda at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand.
In 1999, he lost to Floyd Mayweather Jr in a contest for the WBC World Super Feather Title IN Las Vegas, Nevada.
Juuko featured in a total of 58 fights, winning 45 and losing 12. His most recent fight took place in 2013.
His abduction happened just days before the kidnap of human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo. Opiyo has since been charged with money laundering and sent on remand.
A spate of kidnappings targeting opposition activists has hit Kampala in recent weeks.
On Sunday, former presidential candidate and president of FDC Kizza Besigye reported that his aide had gone missing.
In a tweet, Besigye said that Hajji Asuman Ssemakula has been taken from his home in Busega, south-west Kampala on Saturday night.
There has been a global outpouring of anger against Opiyo’s charges which government critics have called a political fabrication.
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