{UAH} Gen Katumba IS now officially the funniest guy in UPDF?
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In a lengthy interview early this week, Gen Katumba Wamala, the Chief of Defence Forces, explained why he and Junior Defence minister Gen Jeje Odongo appeared non-categorical in Parliament last month while defending UPDF’s mission in South Sudan.
Katumba also talked about the February 6 army day, also known as Tarehe Sita, and offered tips to renegade general David Sejusa, and other politicians eyeing the presidency.
Asked why he and Odongo initially suggested that the UPDF weren’t involved in combat in South Sudan, a smiling Katumba said the MPs simply failed to understand military jargon.
“We said that we sent a task force; we didn’t say that we had sent in doctors or engineers, but a task force which is ready to go in combat when the situation so prevails. Maybe they should have gone further to ask, are you likely to commit this task force in combat?”
Asked about former intelligence chief Sejusa, who has been exiled in Europe since May last year, the army chief said the renegade general who has since formed a pressure group to fight NRM is not a threat to national security.
He said there was a time when coups on the African continent were the order of changing governments but that era had ended. Katumba added that even the era of liberation movements such as NRA/M’s was now out of fashion.
The ballot box is now the acceptable mode of changing governments, he said. To politicians eyeing the presidency, Katumba advised:
“Anybody who wants to pursue a political office at whatever level, go to the ballot box; but thinking of going to the bush to fight, my friend, I think people who have developments in the city will not allow you to erase them as it was in Bor [South Sudan]. I don’t think so.”walusimbideo@gmail.com
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