For the third time in a period less than one month, unknown gunmen have attacked security facilities, shot at officers and escaped scout free with firearms.
The latest incident involves a raid on Gaddafi Military barracks in Jinja City, where two guns were stolen on Thursday night after goons killed a soldier guarding the checkpoint.
Police say investigations have started into the incident and are hunting for the suspects involved.
On Monday, unknown assailants who opened fire on opened fire on Kensington Police Post in Kyanja, Nakawa Division around 1 am.
The Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police Spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, said they fired two rounds, shuttering the window pane at the police post, putting locals in the area under total fear. No injuries were registered.
Owoyesigyire stated joint security joint teams were retrieving footage from near the area as investigations into the attack commence.
Two weeks ago, unidentified gunmen raided Busika police station in Luwero district and killed two police officers and injured two others, before robbing two guns. The third officer succumbed to bullet wounds in hospital.
Busiika Police Post, which is 33km outside Kampala was last week at around 7.30 pm.
Opposition giant, Dr. Kizza Besigye, recently alleged that the raid on police posts and security officers is a sign of a crisis in Uganda caused by the government.
Besigye said incidents like the recent attack on Busiika Police Station in Busiika Town Council in Luwero District, is a consequence of a political and crisis instigated by the government.
“This episode of grabbing guns is not ordinary, It is a political response to this crisis. And who is grabbing the guns? We don’t know. It is either victims of the crisis , those saying we are fed up of being tortured with drones saying let us be killed while fending for ourselves or the Junta undertaking clandestine measures to create ground for insurgency, so that they repress the population even more,” he said.
