Due to chronic poverty and poor remuneration in Uganda, we have been told that some Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Junior Officers, bribe in order to get deployed in Somalia.

Sources say that the UPDF soldiers spend their insufficient income to bribe their Senior Army Officers to be deployed in a dangerous country, Somalia to fight Al-Shabaab militants in a bid to get fatty allowances and salaries.

According to sources within Uganda’s security intelligence, the bribes are surging in UPDF due to low and delayed salaries and poor working conditions of soldiers in Uganda.

They say that Junior UPDF Officers prefer to take a high risk to go and serve in Somalia for some extra and on time salaries than staying safe in Uganda but starving with their families in president Museveni’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) government.