2021 twin bomb attacks
President Yoweri Museveni has offered compensation to over 57 victims of last year’s twin bomb blasts that left five people dead and dozens injured.
The attacks carried out by three suicide bombers on 18th November 2021, happened at Parliamentary Avenue near Insurance building and close to the Central Police Station (CPS) Kampala.
Police confirmed that a domestic group attached to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an affiliate of the ISIL (ISIS) group in Central Africa, was behind the attacks. ISIL claimed responsibility.
The attacks happened within minutes of each other, with two suicide bombers on motorbikes disguised as “boda boda” motorcycle taxi drivers detonating a device near parliament, while a third attacker targeted a checkpoint near the Central Police Station.
The President has also rewarded victims of the October 2021 attacks at a local pork joint in Komamboga.
2021 twin bomb attacks
During a brief ceremony on Sunday at the police headquarters in Naguru, the State House Comptroller, Jane Barekye, distributed cash worth UGX20 million to each of the deceased’s families and UGX10 million each to over fifty seven victims who survived the attacks.
The money was distributed in the presence of the Director Crime Intelligence Fred Ddamulira and the Commandant of Kampala Metropolitan Police Senior Commissioner of Police, Steven Tanui.
In her message from the President, Barekye said President Museveni condemns all forms of terrorism that have led to the loss of lives of Ugandans and left many others incapacitated.
