Police officers in Uganda had on Sunday, September 3, stated that they had locked up a 28-year-old man who entered a church in the capital city, Kampala, with an explosive device he had planned to detonate there.
Authorities were also, as at the time of filing this report, still hunting three other men suspected to have been sent on an identical bombing mission elsewhere in Uganda, according to police reports.
The motives had not been clear, but the Islamic State, IS-linked Allied Democratic Forces, ADF, had previously carried out dangerous bomb attacks in the country.
ADF had originally been a Ugandan insurgent group but it was conquered over two decades ago and had fled into the jungles of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where it has since made its settlement.
The detainee, Kintu Ibrahim, was arrested as he was about to enter a Pentecostal church, Lubaga Miracle Centre, in the Lubaga suburb, south Kampala.
Patrick Onyango, the police spokes representative had told news men that security personnel had been informed about some attacks planned on places of worship and following the tip off, they had traced Ibrahim.
Onyango had remarked that the suspect had been in possession of a bag with a makeshift explosive device which the police later detonated safely.
During interrogation, Onyango had confessed that there were three other accomplices who had also been sent to carry out similar bomb attacks.
