Police arrest 22-year-old mother allegedly recruiting minors into ADF
Enanga also noted that ADF is now finding it hard to smuggle recruits out of the country, and they have now resorted to using children.
Police in Rwenzori West, along with UPDF officers, arrested a mother of 2 who was moving along with 3 other girls aged 11, 13 and 15 respectively; who she had smuggled out of the country as Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels’ recruits.
According to police, the 22-year-old suspect was moving along with her two sons aged 3 and 5, together with the other three girls travelling from Buziika villae in Njeru, Jinja district.
Upon her arrest, she had crossed with the minors the borderline of Uganda and DRC, into the eastern DRC province from Banamayi in Kabuyini Cell.
Police spokesperson Fred Enanga noted that they had tipped off their counterparts in DRC, who intercepted the Mother of two and handed her over to Uganda police along with UPDF.
“Right Now we have them at the mountain Brigade, and we are trying to interrogate them further. They had a male suspect whom they were moving with and they have given us the identity. But because we are still finding out who the collaborators are from Njeru, who continue to enlist people into ADF ranks, that’s why we are not giving those details,” he said.
Enanga also noted that ADF is now finding it hard to smuggle recruits out of the country, and they have now resorted to using children.
At the beginning of this month, police in Bukedi South and Butaleja conducted an intelligence-led operation where they rescued 59 victims who were allegedly recruited into an ADF domestic cell.
In June last year, police together with UPDF arrested 3 suspected ADF rebels, led by one Umar Ajobe in the Luwero district.
UPDF spokesperson Brig. Gen. Felix Kulaigye confirmed that Ajobe was suspected to be an ADF ally who owned houses along Bombo Road, Luweero Town Council, where he was living with his wife and eight (8) children, whom he trained in acts of terrorism.
