Police have in custody a man who appeared in a viral social media video claiming to have been part of last week’s massacre of school children in Kasese district.
The suspect has been identified as Rasto Kalenzi, shop attendant and resident of Namengo village in Lugazi. He also runs a Tiktok account with over 6000 followers.
Hellen Butoto, the Ssezibwa regional police spokeswoman told this reporter that Kalenzi was apprehended today, Tuesday June 20, and he awaits arraignment in courts of law.
“We got him at around midday today and we are holding him at CPS Lugazi. Investigations are still ongoing,” she said.
In a Tiktok video, Kalanzi claimed he was among the ADF terrorists that attacked Lhubiriha secondary school in Mpondwe, Kasese district.
“We killed 70 people even though you are announcing the wrong numbers,” he said.
He also claimed to have been part of the deadly bombings in Kampala at CPS and Parliamentary Avenue in November 2021, and that on 27th this month, they were planning more attacks in the city.
Later on however, Kalenzi, who goes by the names “Rasto Buikwe1 ” on Tiktok released two more videos apologizing to the families of the Kasese victims.
He said that at the time he made the first video he was not in the right state of mind.
