Captain Moses Asiimwe, the UPDF officer who was last month arrested in Somalia, has now been redeployed to 4th Division in Gulu district. Asiimwe was arrested and sent back to Uganda after he allegedly questioned Brigadier Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s rapid promotions. Muhoozi is President Yoweri Museveni’s son and commander of Special Forces Command (SFC), an elite force within the Uganda People’s Defence Forces.
There is still no information on the whereabouts of Lieutenant Joel Mutabazi, a former body guard to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who was reportedly kidnapped in Kampala on Tuesday. Mutabazi, who worked as Kagame’s body guard for 20 years before falling out with the system, went missing from his United Nations High Commission of Refugees—UNHCR rented home in Kawempe, a Kampala suburb.
The Forum for Democratic Change should not have held a Presidential election after former leader Dr. Kiiza Besigye stepped down, a top party official has said. Chapaa Karuhanga, the FDC envoy to the inter-party cooperation (IPC), says the party should have had one of Dr Besigye’s deputies at the time to take over as acting president until 2014 when Besigye’s term was set to end.
