ENTEBBE AIRPORT, Uganda
May 5, 2016, Uganda Police issued a terror alert for what they termed a planned attack on the country’s Entebbe international airport by Somali based Al-Shabaab terrorists.
Police said there is credible intelligence that Al-Shabaab terrorists have finalized plans to strike at the airport and other key government installations.
The police hence issued the terror alert following intelligence report forwarded to the Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura and released to the press by deputy police spokesman Polly Namaye in Kampala.
“We have received intelligence information that terrorists are targeting the airport and other key government installations and we want to remind the public to be alert and vigilant,” Namaye told the media at police headquarters in Naguru.
Since the intelligence sufficed police increased deployment at the airport including high risk areas in preparedness for any terror eventuality.
Uganda is a contributor to AU peacekeepers with the biggest number of troops as part of the African Mission in Somalia where they are battling the same group—Al-Shabaab destabilizing the horn of Africa country.
