The bombs were disguised as gifts and sent to pastors via public address systems, Mr Museveni said.

On X, formerly known as Twitter, he said members of the public became suspicious of the devices and reported them to the police.

ADF, a militant group affiliated with Islamic State, was blamed by the president for the plot.

As of yet, the ADF has not commented. In the 1990s, the ADF took up arms against President Museveni, alleging Muslim persecution.

Having suffered heavy setbacks at the hands of the Ugandan army in 2001, the organization relocated to the neighbouring DR Congo’s North Kivu province.

In 2016, the group pledged allegiance to IS.

Over 40 people, mostly students, were killed at a boarding school in Uganda in June as a result of these attacks.

In Kibibi, about 50km (30 miles) from Kampala, the militants planned to detonate two bombs, but the devices “were reported to the police and defused”.

The evil plan was foiled, he said, warning people not to accept gifts from strangers.

Museveni announced earlier on Sunday that Ugandan forces had struck four ADF positions in DR Congo.

“Quite a few terrorists were killed,” the president said.

“The ADF are reentering Uganda and committing some random acts of terrorism,” he warned.

A bomb attack on one of Kampala’s largest churches was foiled by Ugandan police in September.

There was an arrest of a man suspected of trying to detonate a bomb among worshippers, police said.