Two Students Arrested over Anonymous Letter Warning of ‘Terrorist Attack’ on School

Police have arrested two senior one students of St Charles Lwanga High School for allegedly issuing an anonymous letter warning of an impending terrorist attack against their school.

Innocent Mwesigye, 16, is in police custody for threatening violence together with his accomplice Ayebare Benon, 17.

On July 5, the school leadership came across an anonymous letter with threats of a terror attack on St Charles Lwanga High School and two other schools in Kasese (St Andrews Primary School and Kibingo Primary School), which was dropped at the entrance of one of the classrooms.

According to Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, after a thorough investigation in coordination with the school, it was established that the anonymous letter was written by Mwesigye assisted by his classmate Ayebare.

Upon interrogation, the two claimed that they wanted to scare the school administration for having punished them after the dormitory captain reported them for indiscipline.

Both students admitted to having authored the anonymous letter.

The police task team also recovered an exercise book where they plucked a page.

“It will be subjected, together with their specimen handwritings, to the handwriting expert for analysis.”

Enanga warned students that making threats of violence or attack or use of firearms is not a joke but a criminal act.

He said the two students will be arraigned in court for threatening violence and probably remanded to a juvenile detention centre.