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TRIBALISM? Shock as Museveni Promotes UPDF Officers from One Region, Appoints Them to Command SFC, other Units

Museveni and newly appointed Deputy Commandant of Special Forces Command (SFC) Brig Gen Charity Bainabaabo

A section of Ugandans on social media have described President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s latest UPDF promotions and appointments as an act of tribalism.

According to army spokesperson Brig Gen Felix Kulayigye, Gen Museveni, who is the Commander-in-Chief of the UPDF, has promoted Col Charity Bainabaabo to the rank of Brig Gen and appointed her deputy commandant of the Special Forces Command (SFC).

Gen Museveni also promoted Col David Mugisha to the rank of Brigadier General (Brig Gen) and appointed him second in command of the Third Division.

Lt Col Nathan Nabimanya has been promoted to the rank of colonel (Col) and appointed Commandant of SFG.

Bainabaabo, Mugisha and Nabimanya are believed to be from one region of Uganda.

This has left some people complaining of tribalism in military appointments. Read some of the comments below:

Ugandans react to latest UPDF promotions and appointments

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Samuel Kamugisha is a Ugandan journalist, editor, translator, 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. His other journalistic 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. His new children's book 'Friends of Plastics' has been published by Room to Read and Reading Association of Uganda and can be read here: https://literacycloud.org/stories/7887-friends-of-plastic/

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