Security forces on Wednesday successfully busted an Allied Democratic Forces-ADF rebel home in Luwero, arresting three suspects.
A joint security team accompanied by the media attacked the residence of one Umar Kabonge Ajobe, a resident of Kikubajinja zone in Luwero town council along Kampala-Gulu highway. It was discovered that the suspect and his accomplices were plotting another bomb attack in Kampala and other areas.
The terrorist cell is a medium large house located in a small grey gate with about three unfinished rooms and an underground hole in one of them. The rooms, with walls made of brick and patches of cement are largely vacant but with various metallic implements on the uncemented floor believed to be components for assembling a bomb.
According to our reporter Minah Nalule, some of the items collected by the armed forces include nails, electric wires, a pistol with 29 rounds of ammunition, forks, an empty bottle of coke and juice,burning incense, and gun oil among others.
Uganda People’s Defense Forces Spokesperson, Brigadier General Felix Kulayigye, says the spot is an underground spot for recruitment, training and assembling a bombs.
He says the suspects were plotting another bomb attack in Kampala after assembling an Improvised Explosive Device ,(IED).
“Despite the main suspect (Kabonge) being a muslim, nobody ever saw him going to the mosque, yet he was a committed muslim. You have seen the thing gathered here, they had already bought a car to transport the explosives we suspect were going to Kampala” Kulayigye says
He says they received information from curious locals that Ajobe and two others were assembling a bomb to carry out the attack.
Kulayigye says this is not the first time that one of the suspects Akbar Kabanda has been arrested for terror related crimes. In March 2022, he was arrested after attacked CPS in Kampala and hid an explosive device in the ground. He says the suspect was pardoned and granted amnesty.
Locals in Kasana Piida Parish at Luwero town council, say that they only knew Ajobe as a welder and metal scrap dealer but had no clue that he was linked to terror activities.
During his arrest yesterday, Ajobe’s wife and child looked on helplessly before they revealed that this is not the first time he is being held under similar circumstances.
The wife affirms that in March this year, a Toyota Hiace van aka drone with gunmen inside attacked and arrested her husband and son.
The son later returned claiming that he was accused of hosting a terror training facility.
In November last year, unidentified security operatives picked up Sheikh Swaibu Segujja, the Assistant Secretary for Zakat under the Luwero Muslim District, and the Imam of Butanza mosque in Katikamu Sub County their alleged ADF links.
