Police spokesperson, Fred Enanga, said the trio aged, 12, 13, and 22 was found with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and a laptop.
Enanga said they tried to cross into Uganda through Kasese where they reportedly have a cell.
“They must have been recruited from Mayuge and were planning to cross over to the DRC. The third suspect also juvenile is a 13-year-old Congolese,” Enanga told journalists on Monday during the Police weekly security presser.
In December 2022, the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) said it captured seven more suspected ADF rebels in Kyobe, Bweramule sub-county in Ntoroko district.
In the same month, ADF attacked Ntoroko district and during a fire exchange, 17 of ADF militia were killed, 13 captured with sixteen guns and 14 improvised explosive devices were captured while one UPDF officer was also killed.
While addressing the press after the ADF attack in Ntoroko last year at the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs headquarters in Mbuya, the UPDF spokesperson, Brigadier General Felix Kulayigye, assured the public that the general security situation all over the country was calm and that there was no need for worry.
Kulayigye also told the press the UPDF military operation dubbed Operation Shujaa which was launched last year with the goal of eliminating ADF was going on very well.
In eastern DRC, he said Uganda was able to defeat the ADF sects thus enabling the smooth road construction of roads from Beni to Tebo all the way to Mugwalo inside Ituri region.
“There is some road construction Uganda is doing in eastern DRC. This has continued smoothly because we have been able to defeat the ADF there. There used to be ambushes in the areas these roads are being constructed, but that is not the case now. Road construction is on-going uninterrupted,” he said, adding that the UPDF was able to bring calm in the area enabling people to go back to their homes peacefully.