Police responded to four false bomb alarms.

Apart from the two bombing attacks at a pork shop in Komamboga and inside a Swift bus on Masaka Road, police reacted to four more suspicious bomber scares in Kampala metropolitan districts, but no explosives were recovered.

On the 23rd of October, the first Improvised Explosive Device-IED went off at a popular pork place in Komamboga, killing one female waitress Emily Nyinaneza on the spot and injuring three others.

The second IED went off two days later inside a Swift bus in Lungala, Mpigi district, killing one person, Isaac Matovu alias Muzafaru, who was thought to be the bomber.

In the same week, police counter-terrorism and bomb squad teams responded to four more suspicious terror scares reported by the general public in Katabi town council, Nsambya, Ggaba, and along Gayaza road, but none contained any explosives, according to Fred Enanga, a police spokeswoman.

“Our reaction team from the aircraft bomb squad responded after a suspicious bag was left at Katabi playground, however our teams discovered that there were clothes,” Enanga added. We also responded to a teargas canister here at Nsambya Sharing Hall. And our field force unit removed it, but any reported scare must be taken for granted.”

“We also replied to an abandoned numberless motor vehicle along Ggaba road near to the United States Embassy, and we determined that it belongs to Andrew Tumwogerwa, a member of the embassy’s personnel,” he continued. We went back to the Akamwesi mall on Gayaza Road, where we discovered another abandoned bag containing clothes.”

Commissioner Enanga, on the other hand, cautions the people to be careful because terrorists’ soft targets are numerous: “Their objectives are still numerous, and security teams may find it difficult to protect them.” Restaurants, hotels, retail malls, markets, public transportation, and religious institutions are among the most common of these locations.”

In this time of uncertainty, the police have asked agencies, ministries, departments, and business centers, as well as churches, to examine and improve security.

At least 48 persons have been captured so far as a result of combined security agency operations on suspicion of helping to install explosives in the country.