Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni said the victim of the bomb attack on a passenger bus on Monday was a terrorist.
In a letter the president shared on his social media platforms, Museveni also linked the attack on the Ishaka bound bus to a terror group behind the foiled terror attack on mourners during the funeral of late Maj. Gen Lokech’s funeral way back in August.
One person was killed and several others were injured on Monday when an explosive went off in a bus belonging to Swift Safaris coaches at Lungala, in Mpigi District. The incident happened just days after another suspected terror attack happened in Kawempe near Kampala city when terrorists attacked a pork joint in Komamboga killing one person and injuring several others.
President Museveni maintains that security has managed to gather important clues and the culprits behind the terrorist activities in Uganda will be apprehended.
President Yoweri Museveni’s letter in full
From Ssabalwanyi to Bazzukulu and all Ugandans:
This is to inform you 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.
He 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 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. Arresting or killing these suspected criminals, led to the hunt for Muzafala and others who are still on the run in Uganda and outside.
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 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 guide lines. We are following all the other shallow schemes that will be similarly defeated. The injuring of some Ugandans in the bus is much regretted.
Yoweri K. Museveni Gen (rtd)
PRESIDENT/Ssabalwanyi