Police have arrested Muhammad Kayemba, a resident of Makindye with suspected bomb-making materials following an alleged tip-off by local residents.
Kayemba, who is also known as MK was residing in Kigaga zone, Makindye division, Kampala. During the raid on his one rented room, security agencies allegedly found several bags of falcon and lead nitrates which are used in the making of explosives.
Security relied on intelligence provided by locals who were suspicious about his ever-closed house. Locals said they had never seen him bringing in anything during the day but he often came with items they could not understand in the wee hours of the night.
When the security team raided the place on Thursday afternoon, they found it almost full of explosive-making materials. There were no basic household items like basins, and beddings except bags of bomb-making materials, a submachine gun, 88 bullets for an AK-47 rifle and 88 bullets for various types of Pistols.
“He has told us that he was recruited, trained and assigned to be a suicide bomber. We are now looking for people who have been helping him to bring these bomb-making materials to his house,” an ASP attached to the violent crime agency said.
Patrick Onyango, the Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson, said the intelligence team had been briefed that Kayemba was assigned to target convoys of government and security officials.
“He has told our team that if he failed to hit the convoys of government and security officials, the second option was to detonate the bomb in traffic jam,” said Onyango.
Kayemba was transferred to the former offices of the Special Investigations Unit which is currently run by Crime Intelligence and Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence.
Since December last year, security agencies have arrested more than 10 suspected terrorists including juveniles aged 12 and 14 years all linked to Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).
Apart from Kayemba who has been arrested in Kampala, security agencies on Christmas Eve raided Nyendo-Mukungwe division in Masaka City where Ali Katende alias Mao was arrested with a PK machine gun. The gun was allegedly used to shoot at the Kyabadaza police station in Butambala district.
Source: The Observer
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