SHEEMA: Police Arrest two Students over Letter Threatening to Terrorize their School

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Police have taken into custody two senior 1 students of St. Lwanga Secondary Secondary School found in Sheema District who wrote an anonymous letter in which they threatened to attack their school and others in Kasese District.

On Monday,July 10th, 2023, SCP Fred Enanga, the police spokesperson, said during a weekly security brief held at Naguru police headquarters that the two students are identified as Inoccent Mwesigye, age 16, and Amon Ayebare, age 17 year of age.both students of St. Charles Lwanga SS.

According to Enanga,the two students wrote an anonymous terroristic letter against their school, warning school administrators that they were planning a terror attack on St. Charles Lwanga and the other two schools in Kasese, and signed off as ADF rebels.

“After a thorough Investigation and coordination with the school management, police were able to arrest the two students who later admitted to authoring the letter, Enanga stated.

Enanga said that on interrogation, the two students admitted to having written the anonymous letter because they wanted to scare the school administration for punishment imposed on them after the dormitory captain reported them for indiscipline.

The police warns students that making threats of violence of ADF terror attack as a criminal matter that is subject to courts of law.

 

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