Big Story! Baby Coach Bus Conductor Arrested For Trafficking Refugee Children To Join DRC Rebels

Police spokesperson, Fred Enanga has revealed that security in Nakivale refugee settlement in Isingiro District has arrested a Baby Coach bus conductor for allegedly helping refugee children to escape from the refugee camp to join rebel ranks inside the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The suspect identified as Faridah Nabakooza,37 and a resident of Bulenga in Wakiso district was arrested after trafficking five children to join a rebel group inside DRC codenamed Twerwaneho meaning ‘lets us defend ourselves’.

“At around 6am on November, 6, Nabakooza was handed five children and was supposed to drop them somewhere inside DRC. Lucky enough, two children escaped,” Enanga said.

According to Enanga, preliminary investigations indicate that the conductor could have done this for a long time until she ran out of luck this time round.

“She could be a collaborator of the rebel group in one way or the others because she knew where to drop them. We condemn these acts of trafficking children but also enlisting them among rebel ranks. She will be arraigned before courts of law” Enanga added.

Enanga noted that whereas two of the five children escaped, the hunt is on for the remaining three who are suspected to have been handed over to rebels or their collaborators inside DRC.