Lt Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba is Currently aged 48 and is serving as the Commander of UPDF Land Forces. It is quite shocking however, the Intel that we are receiving about him currently, that he was never qualified to be in the army in the first place and only joined under falsehood, making all his promotions rugged as well.
During a radio show in May, Doctor Kiiza Besigye made claims that everything about Lt. Muhoozi that connected him to the military was nothing but a load of lies, mentioning that he joined the army illegally , stayed there illegally and all his promotions were also very illegal.
Doctor Kiiza Besigye mentioned that he has evidence of all these claims and however much he did not present the evidence, this took us back to the dossier that Dr. Kiiza Besigye presented in 2013 which he presented as an open letter to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, mentioning that his era was so full of dictatorship and unfair policies. Below are some of the most highlighted parts of the 2013 dossier by Dr. Kiiza Besigye
Regulation 7 of CS-O provides the procedure for Application for Commission. A person shall not be enrolled into the UPDF unless he/she fills a prescribed form and has been selected by a committee.
After enrollment, one must undergo the prescribed basic military training; during which, he/she is graded and reported upon by the officer in charge of training. After the training, one must appear before the Commissions Board for a decision of the Board whether that person shall be commissioned to the UPDF and whether he should go for an officer training in a military academy.
This is the legal process that Muhoozi did not submit himself to before getting enrolled and training as a Cadet Officer. How was he selected to attend the course at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, UK?
Muhoozi illegally joined the UPDF in 1999 as a Cadet Officer; he was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in 2000. He became a Major in 2003; Lt. Col in 2008; and attained his current rank of Brigadier General in 2012, after 12 years of commissioned service.
He ought to have been considered for promotion to rank of Colonel after 21 years of commissioned service. Why hasn’t the “clogging on ranks” caused by lack of money to retire other officers affected Muhoozi? What exceptional circumstances advised his meteoric rise to his current rank in less than half the required time?
Is it also a coincidence that the “school friends he asked to bring along for elementary training during his “A” level holiday” have all had meteoric rise in rank and appointments of UPDF? I am not questioning their “patriotic ideological interest in the Army” or whether they are “Godsend to the Army” as characterized by Mr. Museveni. What I question is whether they follow the laws and regulations that govern UPDF.
When Muhoozi was, in 2007, admitted to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA, he had to be given a temporary rank of a Major to enable him access to the course because he was still too junior for it. Were there no qualified officers with an appropriate rank to do the course?
