KAMPALA-UGANDA/NEWSDAY: Muwonge Yusuf, the terror suspect who slipped through the hands of security officials leaving behind a bomb at Bbira in Wakiso has finally been arrested.
His arrest follows a massive hunt by the joint anti-terror squad and although police has not yet revealed where he was captured, it is believed he was got from Wakiso.
Yusuf Muwonge 
Suspected terrorists; Maseruka Ibrah and Johab Kasule
Yusuf Muwonge alia Ssendagire Amza aged 28 is the man believed to have disembarked from Swift bus where with a colleague bomber Muzafara were travelling only later for an explosion to occur killing Muzafara.
Muwonge’s arrest now adds to many others including Maseruka Ibrah and Johab Kasule who are already in detention. Their colleague Matovu was killed on Friday as he allegedly tried to escape.
Security sources say that Muwonge had been staying with her unnamed sister at Kireka Bbira where security laid a raid only for Muwonge to escape. His in-law Umar Kaggwa Ssempagama was and two women were taken into custody. But police spokesperson Fred Enanga in a statement on Friday said that Kaggwa Umar was a landlord to Yusuf Muwonge.
The Improvised Bombs left behind by Muwonge NOvember 4. 2021. 
A police truck during the operation November 4. 2021
“We have arrested his landlord- Kagwa Umar, for harboring the dangerous suspect at his home in Kireka –Bbira, being in possession of a bomb. ” Enanga said in the statement.
The day of the raid on Thursday, Muwonge had rented a house at Nakabugo town along Ssentema road to operate a mobile money shop but he had earlier on shifted from Lweeza, where he was staying with Matovu Isaac, before moving to Wamala Katooke, Nansana and his last hideout in Kireka –Biira.
“We want to warn anyone who will be found harboring or aiding Muwonge Yusuf, that they will face serious consequences for doing so” Enanga said.
The arrest of Muwonge on Saturday night closed a 12 day manhunt for him after the Swift coach bus on October 26 at Lungala-Mpigi along Masaka road which followed one on October 24 at Komamboga.
The National ID of Muwonge Yusuf
“Muwonge Yusuf, a suspected close associate of Matovu Muzafaru of the bus terror incident in Mpigi, and who on Thursday abandoned a bomb in Kireka Bira after hot pursuit by security operatives & intel team has finally been arrested,” Police’s chief political commissar Asan Kasingye said in a tweet.
At Kireka Bbira where Muwoge escape from, he left behind a bomb which officers thought contained money and one officer tried to hide it oly to learn it was bomb, later on detonated by experts.
Bomb squad officers at Bbira on November 5.
President Museveni in an On October 26 statement said the terrorist behind the Swift bus coach was Muzafaala who he said had been on a security watch list. Muzafala is thought he was part of the Pader group that had been sent by ADF to blow up the mourners during the funeral of late Maj. Gen Lokech’s funeral and that his colleague Katumba Abdu, was arrested in a Pader Hotel with his bomb-making equipment.
The UK and France last month warned of imminent terrorist attacks. President Museveni says that the attacks are a result of ADF criminals yet the Islamic State has also claimed responsibility.
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