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Two students have been arrested over an anonymous terror threat to their school in Uganda.
According to the Ugandan police spokesperson SCP Fred Enanga, the students aged 16 and 17 admitted to having authored the letter that contained the terror threats against three schools.
Their admission followed revelations by investigations that it was the two senior students who wrote the letter.
“The territorial Police in Greater Bushenyi and Sheema District, has in custody, two senior students of St Charles Lwanga High School for issuing an anonymous terroristic threat of attack by ADF against his school.
“The facts gathered indicate that on July 5, 2023, 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,” Enanga said in a statement.
Police said the two students claimed they wanted to scare the school administration for punishing them after the dormitory captain reported them for indiscipline.
The two students will be arraigned for threatening violence and probably remanded to the juvenile detention centre.
Enanga cautioned Ugandan students from making violent threats. He insisted that such threats amount to criminal acts.
“We would like to warn students that making threats of violence or attack or use of firearms is not a joke, but a criminal act,” he said. BY THE STAR