A suspected ADF rebel who had come from Democratic Republic of Congo to plant bombs and kill peaceful People in Uganda has fled back to his country ‘Congo’ after his criminal schemes were made impossible by the security forces’ vigilance, President Museveni revealed.
Museveni said that his bomb in Kikuba-Mutwe exploded prematurely before he planted it where Ugandan pork-lovers were having their legitimately earned meal and the one in Nabweru exploded in the empty house where the criminals were keeping it because the security forces were hard on the heels of those pigs.
“I have advised the security forces not to make the mistake of mounting roadblocks and such other blind and panicky measures that inconvenience huge masses of People that have nothing to do with the criminals,” Museveni said.
He added that on the Uganda side, the roads are good (do not be fooled by the potholes in parts of Kampala), the traffic is huge and fast and movement is 24 hours a day. Besides, the borders are porous and somebody can even walk into Uganda from Congo cross-country.
“We shall not tamper with this fast tempo of the human activities – cross border – of the fraternal Peoples of Uganda – Congo and East Africa in general,” he guided.
He added, “In the Kasese area, we are hunting for the Congolese Kamusu who survived when the Marines wounded and captured Njovu on Lake Edward.”
“However, the main effort is to wipe out the ring-leaders in Congo – in the forests and in the Trading Centres. On account of the mistakes of the past Congo Governments and the international community (UN, SADDEC, etc.), those pigs have had the free use of big chunks of Eastern Congo for their criminal activities such as camping, training, mining gold, cutting timber, harvesting and selling for themselves the Wanainchi’s Cocoa, trading in vitenge and extorting money from the Wanainchi for the last 20 years, ever since UPDF withdrew from Bunia in 2003, under the International agreement of Lusaka,” Museveni said.
He noted that this had misled them into thinking that they are invulnerable and safe. With these modern means, the rebels are now discovering that those forests are actually death traps.
He said that the 20 years they were given of the free use of that area and the free resources there-in, by the Congo Government and the International Community, they should have been a much bigger force.
Following the intense hunt for these rebels, yesterday, Jinja central police arrested one Nyanza, a Congolese national following a tip-off from residents. During the arrest, they recovered two bullets, and several documents indicating the schools, government installations, and other facilities of their planned attacks.
