Wednesday October 18, 2023

H.E THE PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT ON THE TERRORIST

ATTACK IN QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK

Fellow Ugandans and, especially, the Bazzukulu.

Yesterday, the 17th of October, 2023, we had a most unfortunate

and infuriating incident in the Queen Elizabeth National Park. A
couple of tourists and the Ugandan driver with them were killed at
around 1800hrs on the Katwe- Kabatooro murram road, by a small
group of terrorists running away from our operations in Congo, as
I had shared with you in a previous message.

It was a cowardly act on the part of the terrorists attacking

innocent civilians and tragic for the couple who were newlyweds
and visiting Uganda on their honeymoon. Of course, these
terrorists will pay with their own wretched lives.

However, killing these wretched individuals will not bring back the
lives of these wonderful friends of Uganda who had chosen our
country for their honeymoon, out of the 193 Countries of the world.
Our High Commission in the UK will reach out to their families
and provide whatever support is necessary in this tragic situation.
More importantly, the UPDF, the Police, the UWA and Intelligences
should ensure these mistakes do not happen again and that ADF
is wiped out. The wiping out is moving very well. What needs to be
done is to ensure that the remnants do not commit these atrocities.
That is why I congratulate, again, the Wanainchi, the Police and
other agencies on preventing the bombing of Bunamwaya,
Kayanja’s church and the churches in Kibibi, Butambala.

There were a few gaps in the handling of these remnants. UWA was
guarding tourists once they were in the Park. However, apparently,
the tourists were arriving and departing individually. It is this gap
that they used.

Secondly, the UPDF has been using one form of tracking these
fugitive groups from Congo, Kufuata Nyayo- following their tracks
(ekisinde, ekirari). There are more reliable ways of tracking, which
we have discussed with the Army.

The terrorists will be defeated like Kony was defeated and the cattle
rustlers that have been killing people in Karamoja and the
surrounding districts or those that were cutting People with
pangas (bijambiya) in Masaka.

May their souls rest in eternal peace.

Signed:

YOWERI K. MUSEVENI
GEN. (RTD)

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ENDS

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