TERRORIST BLOWS SELF IN THE SWIFT BUS

President Yoweri Museveni has confirmed that the person who died in the Ishaka-bound Swift bus was a terrorist.

In the statement released today by State House, the Sabalwanyi informed the public that the person who died in the Ishaka – bound bus yesterday, was a terrorist (mutujju) by the names of Muzafala, but also calling himself Isaac Matovu.

The president said the deceased was part of the Pader group that had been sent by ADF to blow up the mourners during the funeral of late Maj. Gen Lokech’s funeral. One of them, by the names of Katumba Abdu, was arrested in a Pader Hotel with his bomb-making equipment – he has been brought to court.

His collaborator, by the names of Nsubuga Hamid fled from Pader to Kampala, where he was killed by the CMI operatives while resisting arrest.

The killing of Nsubuga, the arrest of Katumba, plus the killing of Lubwama Hussein and others that were involved in the attack of Katumba & the arrest of Walusimbi Kamada, and 5 others that were also involved in the attack of Katumba……..has enabled Police and CMI, to arrest a large number of suspected operatives of ADF.

He continued, saying that the arresting or killing of these suspected criminals, led to the hunt for Muzafala and others who are still on the run in Uganda and outside.

He, however, said, “What is not yet clear, is whether Muzafala blew himself up accidentally while carrying the bomb on his lap or he did so deliberately. However, he was being followed by CMI squads. We shall get all of them.”

The president said the breakthrough followed the attack on Katumba. That is when full accountability for the ADF criminals irreversibly started, and their impunity ended in the phase of urban terrorism.

The defeat of their rural terrorism was in 2007 in the Semliki National Park. The present shallow effort is easy to defeat. Just some vigilance by the people e.g. checks at the hotels, churches, mosques or buses, etc., will immunize these gathering points against these bombs.

The Police will put out guidelines. We are following all the other shallow schemes that will be similarly defeated. The injuring of some Ugandans in the bus is much regretted.