By Spy Uganda
The Directorate of Crime Intelligence in close coordination with the Flying Squad Unit and the Territorial Commanders in Wamala Region, have made a breakthrough in their operations and arrested 8 suspects who form part of a newly formed rebel group, the Uganda Coalition forces of Charge (UCFC), says Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga.
According to Police, the group is highly connected to the deadly attacks on 4 police officers attached to Busujju Police Station and Nakasozi Police Post respectively that left 4 guns robbed.
Enanga adds that facts gathered indicate that the collaborators, agents and operatives of the rebel outfit, opened two camps in Mityana district; one at Wabunyira -Busujju and the other one at Kikandwa village. ”It is from these camps that their operatives lured two police officers namely; CPL Okech Alfred and PC Kigongo Moses, into an ambush where they killed and robbed two guns from them,” he says.
Enanga notes that the operatives deserted the two camps, after the deadly attack at Busujju and shifted their base to the wetlands at Kabusi village, Bukuyo Town Council in Kassanda district and it is from this new camp that they carried out another deadly attack on the 17.12.2021 at Nakasozi Police Post and killed two police officers who included CPL Nsubuga Francis and SPC Ddimba Paul before robbing their guns.
”As a result, our task teams built on credible leads gained from their former camps in Mityana, and tracked the assailants in Kassanda district,” says Enanga adding that a successful raid was conducted on their hide-out in a wetland along the Kassanda – Kiboga road in Kabusi village, where eight (8) suspects were rounded up and arrested.
The arrested include; Makumbi Mosh alias Engineer, the field commander, and a resident of Wakiso, Lugendo Stuart Savior alias Kufateeka a 28-year-old, male adult, and Deputy Field Commander from Wakiso district; Mulindwa Julius, a 32-year male adult, from Bukerekere village, Wakiso; Masembe John Nasif, a 28-year-old, male adult from Kassanda district; Yamuremire Paul, a 19-year-old, male adult from Kisoro district, Ssenyonga Bob Robert a 25-year-old male adult from Rakai district; Nabukenya Topista, a 50-year-old, female adult from Namayumba, Wakiso; and Matovu Silvester, a 21-year-old, male adult from Wakiso Town Council.
Enanga further says that the Field Commander of the group, Makumbi Mosh alias Engineer, clearly indicated how they were recruited, majorly from the Wakiso district, transported to their bases in Mityana, where they underwent basic training in guerrilla war tactics.
He adds that they were further provided with material support and encouraged to conduct violent attacks on police officers, in the advancement of the goals of the rebel group, of overthrowing the current government.
”At the time of their arrest, they had concluded plans of attacking Sekanyonyi Police Station and acquiring more guns. And also eliminate police officers whom they doomed as obstacles in their alleged fight for freedom,” says Enanga.
The eight (8) suspects are being processed on charges of terrorism, being in unlawful possession of dangerous weapons, murder and aggravated robbery.
