There is a saying that power and money corrupts people but this was not the case with former Uganda’s army commander, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu. The amiable General has told his pals in Makindye that he is the only army commander in president Museveni’s regime who has ever had power but never allowed it to ‘spoil’ […]
UPDF soldiers are still heavily deployed in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo to combat the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels. Although the LRA advancement in CAR and DRC has been reported as curtailed, sources at CIM and ISO inform us that the Ugandan army has stayed in the these countries and will […]
The commander of the African forces in Somali Maj. Gen. Fred Mugisha has expressed regret at an incident in which AMSON forces killed a Malaysian citizen and killed another. In a statement, AMSOM spokesperson lieutenant col. Paddy Ankunda said the incident happened on Friday when an AMSOM convoy opened fire at junction K4 and killed […]
It was bad luck for the three men yesterday when they fell prey to our intelligence after a tip off from a cooperative and patriotic Ugandan whose names I will not reveal for security reasons. Amadoi Peter from kitale in Kenya,Okello Ben from Palisa and Loito Ekadel from lokiliyama in kenya were nabbed with over 2000 […]
Members of parliament have expressed concern over what they termed as growing habit of senior army officers deploying their juniors to attend to their cattle instead of doing army related work. MPs on the defence and internal affairs committee of Parliament today instructed the Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Aronda Nyakairima to ensure the practice […]
President Yoweri Museveni has clarified to the public that the decision of government to purchase fighter planes was deliberately aimed at strengthening the Capacity of the army. The president said made the clarification at a thanks giving ceremony of the deputy speaker of parliament of Uganda Jacob Olanya in Omiro sub county Gulu district. Museveni […]
Over 3000 residents settling on the ministry of defense land in Kyangwali sub-county are to be evicted by the army to enable it establish a barracks in the area. The barracks is meant to provide security to oil wells in Hoima where oil production is expected to start later this year. The affected residents are […]
The western region police commander Kwanya Wilson has appealed to the entire police force in Uganda to act as examples in the fighting against HIV/AIDS. Kwanya says that the police force has the ability to spread the massage of fighting the scourge since all officers were trained to be change agents. The RPC calls upon […]
The Auditor General has unearthed several scandals ranging from theft of construction materials, poor accountabilities and unauthorized expenditures going on in the ministry of defense/UPDF many of which will require the institution to explain before the public accounts committee of parliament. In his latest report of June30 2010, the auditor general states that at Nakasongola […]
UPDF third division spokesperson captain Deo Asiimwe Akiiki has disclosed that they have started demilitarizing Karamoja and Teso region because the regions have stabilized. Speaking to journalist Deo Akiiki says the main reason they had deployed the army and LDUs in Teso and Karamoja was to cattail the cattle rustling, warriors and LRA insurgency that […]