Ugandan police on Sunday foiled planned bomb attacks on churches in Kibibi and Butamala, both located just outside Kampala, President Yoweri Museveni said via X social media platform.
“Through popular vigilance, two bombs which the remnants from Congo were planning to plant in churches in Kibibi, Butambala, were reported to the Police and defused,” he wrote.
The president noted that police had launched investigations into the attempted bombings, and he assured Ugandans that those behind the plot would be apprehended.
Uganda’s security forces have been on high-alert for months amid ongoing security operations in the country and in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
President Museveni has warned before of the possibility of fleeing militants making attempts to stage attacks inside Uganda. He however affirmed the country’s readiness to curb any terror operations.
The latest incident comes six weeks after police foiled another attempted bombing.
In September, police in the East African country said they had detained a 28-year-old man entering a church in the capital Kampala with an explosive device he planned to use for an attack there.
