Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Commander In Chief and President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni has promoted 528 officers of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). The promoted officers include three from the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to full Colonel, 27 of them from Major to Lieutenant Colonel and 498 from …
Read More »UPDF soldier wanted for shooting traffic officer
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF soldier is at large for shooting and injuring a traffic police officer in Ntinda, Kampala. Assistant Inspector General of Police-AIGP, Asan Kasingye identifies the injured traffic officer as Police Constable Robert Mukebezi. The traffic officer was towing a vehicle that …
Read More »Public warned over attacks on security officers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security institutions have warned members of the public against resuming acts of attacking security officers who are enforcing the curfew time. In Kampala metropolitan areas, police and UPDF say they have registered more than four incidents in the past one week of civilians attacking security …
Read More »MPs Ssewanyana, Ssegirinya masterminded Masaka killings – Police
Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Security agencies have stated that Makindye West MP Allan Ssewanyana and his Kawempe North counterpart Muhammad Ssegirinya, are the people who recruited and deployed greater Masaka machete killers that have left close to 30 people dead. Police spokesperson Fred Enanga at a joint security media …
Read More »UPDF investigates purported revolt threats from army contingent in Equatorial Guinea
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lt-Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Commander of the Land Forces in the Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF has ordered the repatriation of some UPDF officers from the Ugandan contingent in Equatorial Guinea behind the rumour that some soldiers were planning a revolt against their top commander. Last …
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