Buganda Road Magistrates Court has remanded to Luzira prison five people suspected to belong to Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels over terror-related charges.
The suspects are Musa Buwule, 35, Fazil Musiitwa, 28, Abdurahaman Zizinga, 23, Abdallah Lubega, alias Tonny, 28, and Hussein Seifu, 19, a Congolese national. The suspects appeared before Grade One Magistrate Joan Aciro who read to them five counts.
These included: Belonging to a terrorist organisation, aiding and abetting terrorism, which are contrary to the Anti-terrorism Act of 2002 and forgery and uttering of false documents; which two offences are contrary to the Penal Code Act.
Ms Aciro did not allow the suspects to take plea since a Magistrate's Court does not have the jurisdiction to handle capital offences.
Prosecution states that the suspects and others still at large, between December 2014 and January 2015 in the area of Kanungu, Mukono, Buikwe, Buvuma and Iganga districts, willfully joined ADF, a terrorist organisation fighting the government of Uganda and well knowing that there was rebel recruitment, they concealed the information.
On the count of aiding and abetting terrorism, the prosecution contends that Seifu on the January 12, 2015, at Butogota border in Kanungu district, aided Buwule and Musiitwa, knowing the support he (Seifu) was giving will be used for the preparation of acts of terrorism. Read more
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