By Leonard Kamugisha Akida,
ENTEBBE:
Police in Entebbe have arrested one suspect on allegations of being part of the Allied Democratic Forces – ADF that has been terrorizing Kampala and other parts of the country with explosive bombs.
The suspect is Isma Kiyemba, is a 24-year-old, male adult and resident of Makandwa village, Kajjansi Town Council, in Wakiso District.
He was arrested during a Joint Intelligence and Counter Terror Task Teams’ operation in the area.
According to the Uganda Police Force Spokesman CP Fred Enanga, the suspect was tracked down and arrested using advanced surveillance techniques who recovered an assortment of terror related exhibits.
“Upon arrest, he led the team to a search at his premises at Kajjansi, where an assortment of bomb making materials which included; Chemical fluids, 5 capacitors, electric and copper wires, batteries, screws, nails, a digital timer, two electric mortars, 5 mobile phones and several Sim cards were recovered. In addition, a Bank Visa card and materials used in the manufacture of destructive devices including experiments, were also recovered and exhibited” CP Enanga said.
Enanga revealed that the suspect is the that assembled a suicide jacket that was used by a suicide bomber in Swift Bus.
” We have further established that the suspect was the one who assembled the suicide jacket and belt that was detonated by Matovu Muzafaru, on the Swift Safaris bus at Lungala, in Mpigi,” he said.
Police further reported that Kiyemba was also in the process of assembling another IED, on the instructions of an ADF commander, whose details he availed to the joint task team.
They said that he was recruited and radicalized into the ADF terror cell in Lweza by Imam Sulaiman Nsubuga, one of the ADF suspects on police wanted list.
“At the time of his arrest he was found with a written WILL and a planned mission.”
Security says that investigation into the matter is ongoing pledging to continue responding and to counter all threats against citizens.
CP Enanga said operations to crackdown remaining agents and collaborators is ongoing calling for public vigilance amid terror threats.
“The operations targeting the remaining agents, collaborators and operatives are ongoing. We also want to inform the public that the threat environment still exists, which calls for extra caution and vigilance, as they go about their daily activities, and further remind them, to report any threatening or suspicious activity, to the nearest security agency.” CP Enanga Fred
