Kasese school attack will be top of the agenda as Parliament resumes

Parliament will today resume business following a month-long recess and the Kasese school attack is expected to be top of the agenda.

Some MPs this reporter talked to have vowed to ask the “hard questions” on what exactly happened for such a thing to happen.

Abdallah Kiwanuka, the shadow minister for internal affairs, stated that the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be charged with providing a clear justification for the situation.

Atkins Katushabe, a Kasese lawmaker who represents Bukonzo County West, likewise declared he will bring up the issue on the floor today.

The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) are thought to have carried out the attack on Saturday that left at least 41 persons dead, the most of them students.

In a dramatic turn of events, however, Janet Museveni, the minister of education, said that those wishing to take control of the school may have planned to use the ADF insurgents.

By the time dawn broke on Saturday, June 17, 25 bodies had been removed from the school and taken to Bwera Hospital, according to police spokesman Fred Enanga.

Eight further casualties were brought into the hospital in a critical state.

“The police and UPDF are engaged in a frantic pursuit towards Virunga National Park. We do extend our sincere sympathies to the relatives of the deceased, as well as our prayers and thoughts to the injured. More information will be made available when it is time,” Enanga remarked.

The assault resembles one that the same ADF terror organisation carried out on Kichwamba Technical Institute 25 years prior in the nearby Kabarole district, where it set three dormitories on fire and killed 80 students.

The ADF abducted another 100 students and destroyed other property including laboratories and school vehicles.