“I was approached by a one Abdul Karim, he looked like a Somali, he asked any amount of money… he wanted me to help him carry out an attack on my university,” the Busitema University student who was approached told Police.
Police have foiled an attempted terror attack on Busitema University, Tororo, that was planned by a suspected al-Shabaab terrorist operating in Uganda.
Police spokesperson Fred Enanga said the suspect of Somali origin offered an open bounty amount of MONEY
to one of the students at the institution to execute his mission.
“To know that these threats [terror threats] are real, last week, one student at Busitema University was approached by one Abdul Karim of Somali origin who offered him [student] any amount of money he needed in ORDER to execute a terror attack on the university,” Mr Enanga said at a weekly police press briefing in Kampala on Monday.
“We arrested the suspect and this is how real such threats are continuing to materialise. We recently warned a number of education institutions and we want to reinforce our voice to the public to continue being on the outlook of suspicious persons,” he added.
Recently, police said terrorists were planning to carry out an attack on some of the education institutions on Jinja-Kampala highway. Security has been beefed up since the issuance of the terror alerts.
Additional reporting by Daily Monitor
