KAMPALA, Uganda – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has appointed his son Common Muhoozi Kainerugaba as the brand new Chief of Defence Forces (CDF). He replaces Gen Wilson Mbasu Mbadi who was appointed Minister of State for Commerce within the new cupboard reshuffle introduced Thursday night.
Gen Muhoozi has been serving as his father’s senior presidential advisor answerable for particular operations.
This comes days after President Museveni on February 17 offered the Uganda Folks’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Institution 2021, an instrument of delegated Command, Management, and Administration, to then CDF Gen Mbadi, to command all components of the military.
“By advantage of the powers enshrined underneath Article 98(1) of the 1995 Structure of the Republic of Uganda, and Part 8(1) and (2)(a) of the UPDF Act, 2005, yesterday, on February 17, 2024, on the Defence Council assembly, I offered the UPDF Institution 2021, an instrument of delegated Command, Management, and Administration, to Common Wilson Mbasu Mbadi, the Chief of Defence Forces of the UPDF, to command all components of the Uganda Folks’s Defence Forces,” Museveni stated in a February 18 assertion.
Within the new appointments introduced Thursday night, Gen Museveni named Lt Gen Samuel Okiding because the deputy CDF. He replaces Gen Peter Elwelu whom the President named as one among his senior advisors.
Maj Gen Jackson Bakasumba replaces Maj Gen Leopold Eric Kyanda as the brand new Joint Chief of Workers. Maj Gen Kyanda has been appointed Defence attaché whereas the commander of the Particular Forces Command (SFC), Brig Gen David Mugisha has been promoted to Main Common, in line with Defence spokesperson, Brig Gen Felix Kulayigye.
Commando Brigade commander, Asaph Nyakyikuru has been promoted from Colonel to the rank of Brigadier Common.
Supply: Monitor
