Kimberly Sue, an American Tourist and her Ugandan tour guide Paul Jean Mirenge spent four days in a camp operated by gunmen speaking French and Rwandese in DRC jungles of Isasha, this website has reliably learnt.
Four gunmen kidnapped Kimberly and Paul in Queen Elizabeth on April 2, and released them after five days.
The captors had demanded $50000 ransom to release the abductees.
Security agencies led Special Forces swung in action to rescue and put out of action the kidnappers.
Assisted by American soldiers, security used drones to track the criminals but in vain until government decided to hand over ransom to rescue the victims.
On the fifth day, after collaboration, Kimberly and Paul were found in the park walking.
What Happened?
An official in security that played a role in coordinating the operation (names withheld) revealed shocking findings as the commandos began hunting for the criminals.
“At first we treated the kidnappers as usual thugs because we were told that many criminals use that route to kidnap people and demand petty cash as ransom,” he said.
This official confirmed to us that the hideout of these gunmen had been located using a phone mast in the areas on the second day of the operation.
What however, surprised security is the sudden turn of events as the criminals later disappeared from radar.
“It appears they had backup that kept feeding them with information and advising them on what to do,” said an official.
As commandos intensified the hunt past the border into Easten DRC, an isolated camp was discovered.
“No one knows who owns the camp but according to the briefs we got. Those manning the camp are armed and speak French and Kinywarwanda,” the official said declining to divulge more details.
Through a separate channel, TrumpetNews established that commandos couldn’t open fire before a reconnaissance could be done and through checkups to identify who the owners of the camp are.
This website also understands that Special Forces needed an order from Kampala to attack the camp and the order would come through after the two countries Uganda and DRC had been involved in talks.
“You can’t just enter in a foreign country and open gunfire,” another source in security said.
Sabotage?
Ugandan security has since started clandestine investigations to estblish whether the kidnap of the tourist and her guide was sabotage by Rwanda.
It must be noted that three days after the abduction of the tourist 40 Rwandans were arrested in the park and deported. Whereas authorities downplayed reports that they could be associated with the kidnap, a source revealed that “we are leaving no stone unturned in our investigations.”
A source said, the President has been fed with these briefs and he has urged security to keep investigating.
We understand that kidnappers have motives, if the motive is to kill not even ransom can’t save the abductee.
Some kidnappers want to settle political scores.
In this case, the kidnapper could have aimed at tarnishing Uganda’s tourism image by portraying Queen Elizabeth Park as unsafe.
When we asked the source what the abductees said after they were found he responded, “all they told security was not coordinated.”
As to whether they were subjected to interrogation, our source declined to answer that.
However, security couldn’t verify whether the camp in DRC belongs to Rwanda.
This website continues to investigate the real story behind the kidnap of Kimberly Sue and Paul Mirenge.
No security official was willing to comment on this development.