The government of Uganda has this Friday presented three men in court on charges of participating in the July 11 2010 bomb blasts in Kampala that resulted in the death more than 80 people.
Uganda High Court
The State today presented Hassan Agadi, Muhamad Adam, both Kenyans and Idris Kiggundu a Ugandan who was employed in Kenya. The three were presented in the Nakawa Magistrate’s court where they were charged with terrorism and accomplice in the murder of the more than 80 people.
Nakawa Court Chief Magistrate, Deo Sejemba did not allow the accused to enter plea and remanded the accused to Luzira Prison until the case comes up again for mention in the court.
The three are the first to appear in court over the bomb blasts that have seen the arrest of more than 30 people, with Uganda security agencies getting help from neighboring countries and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The government has blamed the two bomb blasts at Kyadondo rugby grounds in Lugogo and another at Ethiopian village restaurant in Kabalagala on Somali militants Al-shabbab. The security agencies say the Somali group has been working with Al-Qaeda and remnants of the Allied Democratic Forces. The ADF in the 1990s fought the government of Uganda and attacked several places in western Uganda before they were defeated by the Uganda People’s Defense Forces in early 2000.
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