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BREAKING: Museveni Appoints His Son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba New Chief of Defences Forces (CDF)

CDF GEN MUHOOZI KAINERUGABA! Ugandan President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has appointed his son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba the new Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) of the national army, the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). 

CDF Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba will take over from Gen Wilson Mbasu Mbadi who was appointed junior trade minister at the Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives (MTIC).

Museveni also dropped Deputy CDF Lt Gen Peter Elwelu. He consoled him with a presidential advisor job.

The new deputy CDF is Lt Gen Samuel Okiding.

In other appointments, Museveni appointed Maj Gen Leopold Eric Kyanda a defence attache.

Maj Gen Kyanda has been the Joint Chief of Staff.

The new Joint Chief of Staff will now be Maj Gen Jackson Bakasumba.

Meanwhile, the president has appointed Brig Gen David Mugisha to the rank of major general. Col Asaph Nyakikurun was promoted from the rank of colonel to brigadier general.

You can see full cabinet list following Museveni’s cabinet reshuffle HERE.

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Samuel Kamugisha

Samuel Kamugisha is a Ugandan journalist, editor, language instructor, poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. A Makerere University graduate of Journalism and Communication with a decade-long experience in news reporting, writing and editing, Kamugisha is Editor at The Pearl Times. Most of his previous work was published by The Observer. When he is not doing journalism work -- which is rare -- Kamugisha will be reading or writing a short story or a poem, or caught up in the writer's block.

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