PHOTOGRAPHS: Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Katumba Wamala with Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) officers who were recently promoted. This, was at the Pipping Ceremony at the Ministry of Defence Headquarters in Mbuya today. PHOTOS VIA PPU Tweets after the pipping ceremony Hongera! Major General @mkainerugaba and other …
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FIVE top Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) officers, including Special Forces Commander Muhoozi Kainerugaba, have been promoted by the Commander In Chief. Also promoted to the rank of Colonel are nine Lt.Colonels in charge of the Operation Wealth Creation (OWC). The UPDF instrument promoting the officers, was released Monday evening. …
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By Haggai Matsiko It was in the last part of his speech to the UPDF High Command, but President Yoweri Museveni’s comments about his son, Brig. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, have become the talking point among the officers that The Independent has spoken to since. On May 22, just a day before …
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By Andrew M. Mwenda With Museveni seeming invincible for now, the only hope of succession is ironically a Muhoozi project Since Gen. David Sejusa aka Tinyefuza kicked off a storm by claiming President Yoweri Museveni wants to make his son, Brig. Muhoozi Kainerugaba his successor, Uganda has not stopped talking. …
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By Independent Team The Inside Story How was it framed? The army generals behind it The Dr. Besigye’s role The army’s plan for Gen. Sejusa The Janet Museveni connection Does President Yoweri Museveni have a grand plan backed by a strategy to make his son Brig. Muhoozi Keinerugaba president of …
Read More »How Muhoozi can succeed his father
By Kavuma-Kaggwa With his military background assured, it is only the democratic political plan missing for him to climb to the top Since the meteoric rise to the military rank of Brigadier General in Uganda’s National Army, the son of President Yoweri Museveni, Brig. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, is now the topic …
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By Haggai Matsiko How he controls the UPDF In August last year President Yoweri Museveni, in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief (CIC) of the armed forces, promoted his son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba from Colonel to Brigadier. It was the second promotion for Muhoozi who had been promoted from Lieutenant Colonel to Colonel …
Read More »Can Col. Muhoozi pacify Karamoja?
By Jocelyn Edwards UPDF pushes in more force but local leaders want Community Security System On April 24, a force of UPDF soldiers surrounded a kraal in Jie County in Karamoja and began firing on the animals and people inside. In a cordon and search operation the army says was …
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