Security arrest Kiwoko attackers

The suspected commander of a group that attacked Kiwoko Police Post in Luweero District on December 22 last year, Fred Mubiru, has been arrested. Grace Matsiko reports that Army spokesman Major Phinehas Katirima said yesterday Mubiru was arrested on Monday in Kampala. Katirima would not say where the suspect is held. "After the attack, we followed them up and recovered all the seven guns they had robbed in Luweero town," Katirima said. He said Mubiru is part of the group led by renegade Major Herbert Itongwa, routed by the army in 1996. Katirima said Mubiru's force, which resurfaced around Kyanuna, was commanded by Capt. Stephen Ssekyaayi. The latter escaped from the UPDF General Military Hospital in Kampala where he was being treated for bullet wounds he sustained during his capture last June. He is reported to be in the UK. Military sources earlier said Mubiru's group claimed the bomb attack on Makenke Barracks in Mbarara and the killing of policemen on the Masaka highway. Meanwhile, security agencies last week recovered high frequency radio communication equipment stolen from the Mount Elgon National Park in December. Katirima said, "We recovered the equipment a week ago." Ends