The suspect was arrested on Tuesday in an operation conducted in Busei A village, Iganga District, where he was allegedly assembling explosives in his room.
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Security operatives deployed at the crime scene. Courtesy photo.
The Police
in Busoga East, have arrested a 19- year-old boy for assembling explosives.
The suspect whose
identities have been withheld has been transferred to the CID headquarters in
Kampala.
The suspect was arrested on Tuesday in an operation conducted in Busei A village, Iganga District,
where he was allegedly assembling explosives in his room. During the operation,
police recovered petrol, wires, steel bars, and unspecified metals, that he was
using to manufacture explosives.
They also
recovered radio calls suspected to have been stolen from police posts in
different parts of the country.
Samuel
Asiimwe, the Busoga East Police Commander, says that the suspect and others
still at large masterminded the attacks on police installations across the
country.
A police officer who preferred anonymity and is privy
to the investigations says that the suspect confessed to having joined the Allied
Democratic Force-ADF rebels in 2018.
He adds that the suspect acquired skills in assembling explosives while in
the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC before he was deployed back home to recruit
other juveniles.
Sayid Miyingo, the Defense Secretary of Busei A Village blamed landlords, who
are reluctant to register new tenants.
