Heightened security at boarder areas over Terror attacks

By Charles Katabalwa

18^th Nov 2021

Security agencies have stepped up security at Lwakhakha border points in Namisindwa, Tororo, and Busia Districts following the twin bombs that went off in Kampala this week claiming six lives and injuring 33 others this Tuesday.

At the Lwakhakha border, Police and other security agencies have been deployed at the various entry points and sniffer dogs are deployed to check all the vehicles and passengers entering the country.

The Elgon region Police Spokesperson, Rogers Taitika, said they have stepped up security at the border to ensure no one enters the country illegally.

He adds that different security agencies have been deployed at different border points and In Busia, the district security committee resolved to beef up its security at the porous points to avoid illegal entrants into the country. there is thorough checking of trucks and people entering the country from neighboring Kenya by Counter-Terrorism -CT Officers and the regular police.

John Rex Achila, the Busia Resident District says that there are more than 200 porous points at Malaba in Tororo District that have to be managed and a sensitization campaign of the residents and the LCI Chairpersons to look out for suspicious people in their respective areas is taking place.

Meanwhile news just in neighbouring Kenya has re-arrested the Three dangerous terror convicts who had escaped from Kamiti maximum security prison in the Capital Nairobi on Sunday as they  tried to flee to neighbouring Somalia.

Musharraf Abdalla, Joseph Juma and Mohamed Ali Abikar were re-arrested some 300km (186 miles) from the capital.

Mohamed Ali Abikar was convicted for his role in the 2015 Garissa University attack in which 148 people were killed.

One of the the other fugitives was arrested in 2012 over a foiled attack on the Kenyan parliament and the third for trying to join the al-Shabab militant group in Somalia.