Komamboga bomb attack
A militia group has come out to claim responsibility for the vicious bomb attack at Komamboga, Kawempe division, that left one person dead and injured several others.
In a statement posted on Telegram, late Sunday, Islamic State reportedly owned up to plotting and detonating the bomb at a local pork joint and bar, identified as Georon, in Komamboga on Saturday night. Reuters News Agency described the location as a place where “members and spies of the Crusader Ugandan government were gathering” in Kampala.
This contradicts an earlier statement by Joint Security Forces that the bomb attack was a domestic job.
Addressing Journalists at the Police Headquarters yesterday, the Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga, said that the attack was planned by three unidentified men who first approached the bar to buy beer. The device was made of nails and other metallic pieces.
“The facts gathered clearly indicate that three men disguised as customers arrived at around 830 pm at the place owned by one Samuel Lule. One of them carried a polythene bag that he placed under the table they sat. They appeared friendly to the extent of buying more drinks and eats for other customers. They later disappeared, leaving their contents at the scene. Moments later, the bomb detonated within a radius of five square meters,” he said.
Komamboga bomb attack
“The joint team of bomb experts has established that the explosion was out of a crude device assembled using local materials of nails and other metallic fragments. All indications suggest an act of domestic terror,”Enanga said further .
Enanga says the suspects later returned to monitor the scene before the contents of the polythene bag exploded. He has asked the public to stay calm and vigilant as investigations into the incident continue.
Prior to this incident, the United Kingdom and France had issued advisories on October 14, 2021 to their citizens in Uganda warning of possible terrorist attacks. However, the Ugandan police reportedly assured the public that there was no need to elevate the threat levels, an issue that has caused criticism on social media.
President Yoweri Museveni has since described the attack as an act of terrorism and called on Ugandans to stand firm because security is committed to fight any form of criminality in the country.
Uganda last suffered a major terror attack on July 11, 2010 after a militant Islamist group, Al-Shabab, killed 76 people in Kampala twin-bombings as hundreds watched a football World Cup final match.
