Police, Army raid people undergoing radicalism in Islam

By Our Reporter

24^th June 2022

A joint security force of the Police and the Uganda People Defense Force -UPDF has stormed a cave at Walusi hill, Kireku village in Kikyuusa Sub-County, Luweero district and forcibly disbanded a group of 70 people who had camped in there allegedly to undergo radicalism in Islam.

These people are said to have come from Kayunga district.

The raid follows a complaint from Nulu Kijjambu, the Kikyuusa Sub-County LC 3 Chairperson who had become suspicious over the influx of people at the hill, they alerted the Luweero RDC Richard Bwabye to investigate their objectives.

During the raid, security personnel have searched the cave, huts and tents they had placed around and according to the RDC Bwabye on interrogation, they have found out that the people were undergoing radicalism in Islam.

He says the living conditions were filthy and that they could also expose themselves to disease outbreaks.

It’s against this background that he has ordered the arrest of three leaders for further interrogation and those who were under teaching to immediately be transported back to their homes in Kayunga.

Reacting to this development, Luweero district Kadhi under the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) Sheikh Ramadhan Mulindwa Nsanja has told reporters that the security narrative that these people were undergoing radicalism in Islam is not true.

He says these were just new converts and that the area leaders were planning to construct a mosque for prayers.