By Bernard Ngabirano,
NATIONAL
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa will on Thursday July 13, address the country on security.
In a statement by the deputy presidential press secretary, Faruk Kirunda, the address will be aired live on all radios and televisions at 8pm.
“The Commander-In-Chief of the Updf H.E Gen.(Rtd) Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will this Thursday address the nation on Security and other matters of National Importance,” read a statement by Kirunda in parts.
The address comes at a time when Uganda is facing security threats by the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamist terror group operating in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that on June 16 attacked and killed over 40 people including 37 students of Lhubiriha Secondary School in Ngando, Mpondwe Bwera Kasese district
A couple of weeks later, United Kingdom also issued a terror alert in travel advisories to its citizens in Uganda and those intending to visit the country cautioning them against possible terror attacks targeting public places such as sports centres, places of worship, government buildings and security centres.
The UK however, did not specify the exact groups targeting Uganda but, the minister of internal affairs Maj Gen Kahinda Otafire (Rtd) revealed that the terror alert issued by the UK isn’t new information to the Ugandan Government, because intelligence and security agencies had already gathered this information and the UK Government’s alert was simply confirming what the Uganda team had known.
