Press Statement By The Minister Of State For Defence And Veteran Affairs/Veteran Affairs On The Occasion Of Liberation Day 2023
My Fellow Citizens, On the 26th day of January in 1986, the NRA now UPDF ushered in a new dispensation of stability and peace for our country. While announcing the takeover of government and assuming the presidency, His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, speaking at the steps of Parliament building, famously […]
Attack On UPDF Soldiers On Guard Duties
Last evening an Attack occurred on our Soldiers guarding at Ambercourt road close to Gadaffi barracks at 2050hrs leading to the death by strangling and shooting of RA/110575 Sgt Eyagu Simon Peter a UPDF soldier attached to Gadaffi Barracks JINJA Cantonment while his colleague had gone to buy some drink. […]
Promotion And Appointment In UPDF
H.E the President and Commander in Chief of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces has appointed and promoted Maj Gen Sam Okiding to the rank of Lieutenant General and appointed him Force Commander African Union Transition Mission In Somalia (ATMIS). The Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs and UPDF fraternity congratulate […]