In light of recent terrorist threats, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has urged Ugandans to be on guard and requested that all visitors be checked before entering places of worship and recreational facilities.
In a televised address to the nation on Thursday evening, President Museveni asked Ugandans not to allow any “strange” people to churches and mosques and report them to the police.
“Don’t allow anyone you don’t know to enter your church, to enter your mosque. No strangers should enter your church. They must be challenged, isolated and reported to the police,” he said.
“For the hotels and the lodges, take the particulars of people who come there. Make sure they show you their identity cards with their pictures,” he added.
He urged people to maintain their composure amid terrorism threats associated with militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), saying that the security forces were looking for them.
Following an increase in ADF militant attacks, Uganda has increased security monitoring.
Museveni’s comments come days after Ugandan police prevented a bomb attack on a church in the nation’s capital Kampala on Sunday and found five additional explosives the following day.
Source-BBC
