In a significant development in the ongoing fight against ADF terrorists, the mastermind responsible for brutal murder of tourists in Queen Elizabeth National Park has been captured alive by UPDF special forces.
In a fierce night operation conducted on Tuesday, the army killed six ADF terrorists and captured one, who would later be identified as commander Abdul Rashid Kyoto alias Tembo, aka Njovu (buffalo), a 31 year old Mugwere by tribe.
“Some ADF terrorists whom we have been tracking down since the attack on tourists were finally got and a number of them were killed last night on lake Edward off Kayanja Landing site in Kasese district,” UPDF deputy spokesperson Col Deo Akiki said in a brief statement sent to this website.
He added that an intelligence led operation saw a number of terrorists perish under combined fire of UPDF marine, special forces, 222, 301 Brigade infantry squads in a well-coordinated night operation.
“It should be noted that this was a part of the group that killed the tourists. The operation is still on to finish all the splinter groups of ADF.”
Maj Gen Dick Olum, the UPDF Mountain Division commander and overall Commander of Operation Shujaa in DRC said they got “good intelligence” from Chief of Military Intelligence Maj Gen James Birungi whose men had tracked and followed the enemy up to the shores of Lake Edward, before he informed Olum who commanded his men to attack the terrorists and subsequently capture Njovu.
Last month a couple, a South African woman and a British man on honeymoon and their Ugandan guide were waylaid by heartless ADF terrorists, killed and their vehicle banned to ashes.
President Yoweri Museveni assuring the nation vowed that those responsible would be also “sent to their creator.”
Maj Gen Olum said those killed were found with equipment and identifications that prove they were behind the brutal attack of tourists.
The capture of this high-ranking terrorist leader Njovu marks a major breakthrough in efforts to bring ADF terrorists to justice.
Njovu and his dead colleagues are believed to have orchestrated a series of attacks targeting Ugandans in various locations, leading to several tragic deaths and injuries. The string of attacks had not only posed a significant threat to public safety but also undermined the tourism industry in the affected region.
