{UAH} NRA'S 1st FEMALE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE MISSING-IN-ACTION
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NRA'S 1st FEMALE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE MISSING-IN-ACTION!
During Museveni's bush war there was a small number of females in the bush. Janet Mukwaya, Olive Zzizinga and Mrs Njuba were the few elite females in the bush. Museveni deliberately kept them out of the mainstream military. Because these three were Baganda, Museveni treated them with suspicion. Like was the case with Moses Kigongo, at one point Olive Zizinga attempted to escape from the bush out of frustration based on sectarianism.There was also the likes of Jovia Saleh (wife to Gen Saleh) and Dora Kuteesa (wife to Gen Pecos Kuteesa). These two remained civilians and Jovia is now in private business while Dora Kuteesa is at the Uganda High Commission in India.
During the early days of the war, a number of teenage girls from Masulita Secondary School were kidnapped to the bush. This followed their Headmaster Jacob Asiimwe (now a senior army officer) using the students as human shields for the NRA guerrillas against government forces. These girls were used and abused as sex slaves by the fighters the same way Joseph Kony abused the Aboke girls. Some senior NRA officers fathered children with some of these girls. One very senior officer named such a baby Kensiko (meaning born in the bush). These girls were totally robbed of their future and their lives totally destroyed as many have since died of aids.
Then there was a small group of illiterate females like Proscovia Nalweyiso, Dafroza, Joyce, Ndagire and a few others. This category was mainly composed of Baganda peasants.These were mainly based in non combat units like training wings. Actually during the western region front, Proscovia Nalweyiso was in Charge of welfare of NRA patients in Kilembe, Virika, Kabarole hospitals while Joyce, Ndagire and Dafuroza were instructors in the training wing. However, Joy Mirembe who had earlier been a member of the urban clandestine squad before her cover was blown and she took refuge in the bush died in combat during the blotched up Mbarara attack. She is the only known NRA female combatant known to have been engaged in real combat.
After the fall of Fort Portal in mid 1985, a number of Konjo, Bamba and mainly Batooro females enlisted for training in the NRA camps. Notable among them were the girls from Ruteete and Madox Secondary Schools. Obviously, the senior combatants sexually fed on these females and just a few of them made it to the top. Still, the role of female combatants in the NRA remained the same - to create a fake impression that even females can fight. To boost this propaganda, these girls were the pioneer and dominated the popular NRA qoir that was initiated by Benon Potel. Among them were Joyce Kabanyoro and her sister Alice who attended Cadet training in the late 80s and are now senior officers. Another one was Grace Kabazahuki who after Cadet training took charge of guarding Museveni's daughters at school. Another one was Nyangoma who retired under in 1990 but rejoined later on and has been in Mogadishu under Amisom. Then there was Mercy Ruhinda of ISO and a few Nurses in the Military Hosipital. Otherwise majority of the 1985 female soldiers vanished into oblivion.
After capturing power, quite a good number of females from all over the country enlisted into the NRA. As had always been the trend, majority simply disappeared into the kitchens of their male counterparts because there was no clear policy to regulate their relationships. What was only in place was an unofficial policy for the NRM Vice Chairman to be the one to issue permits to the consenting partners for marriage. A few made it to clerical duties leaving the majority in a dilemma asSINGLE MOTHERS
and prostitutes. That is when a plan was devised to open up a womens' wing at Bombo with Proscovia Nalweyiso as the Commandant.
Around 1987/88 a reasonable number of educated females enlisted into the NRA. Among them were Agnes Kasaami and Rose Kabuye fresh from MAKERERE UNIVERSITY. After completing their basic military training at Kabamba they were posted to the army headquarters. Agnes Kasaami who had been the first female Ugandan university graduate to join the NRA was posted to work in the then Army Commanders office - then Gen Elly Tumwiine. Gen. Tumwiine instead fathered a kid with Agness and since then she lost her military career and went into oblivion. On her part, Rose Kabuye left with RPF to invade Rwanda where she rose through the ranks to become a Colonel and one time Kagame's Chief of Protocol.
Throughout the proceeding years the NRA has attracted a good number of females some with university education. Senior army officers have seconded their daughters to join the forces just as a way of gaining employment. The recently created branch of Muhoozi's SFG in Police has also seen a number of them especially from the home district taking charge of the first family's SECURITY. On his part Museveni continues to parade Brig. Proscovia Nalweyiso as the most senior NRA female. Being an illiterate, what calibre is she compared to Agnes Kasaami whose career was destroyed by Elly Tumwiine or Jesca Alupo who was retired and appointed Minister!
INFORMATION IS POWER.
During the early days of the war, a number of teenage girls from Masulita Secondary School were kidnapped to the bush. This followed their Headmaster Jacob Asiimwe (now a senior army officer) using the students as human shields for the NRA guerrillas against government forces. These girls were used and abused as sex slaves by the fighters the same way Joseph Kony abused the Aboke girls. Some senior NRA officers fathered children with some of these girls. One very senior officer named such a baby Kensiko (meaning born in the bush). These girls were totally robbed of their future and their lives totally destroyed as many have since died of aids.
Then there was a small group of illiterate females like Proscovia Nalweyiso, Dafroza, Joyce, Ndagire and a few others. This category was mainly composed of Baganda peasants.These were mainly based in non combat units like training wings. Actually during the western region front, Proscovia Nalweyiso was in Charge of welfare of NRA patients in Kilembe, Virika, Kabarole hospitals while Joyce, Ndagire and Dafuroza were instructors in the training wing. However, Joy Mirembe who had earlier been a member of the urban clandestine squad before her cover was blown and she took refuge in the bush died in combat during the blotched up Mbarara attack. She is the only known NRA female combatant known to have been engaged in real combat.
After the fall of Fort Portal in mid 1985, a number of Konjo, Bamba and mainly Batooro females enlisted for training in the NRA camps. Notable among them were the girls from Ruteete and Madox Secondary Schools. Obviously, the senior combatants sexually fed on these females and just a few of them made it to the top. Still, the role of female combatants in the NRA remained the same - to create a fake impression that even females can fight. To boost this propaganda, these girls were the pioneer and dominated the popular NRA qoir that was initiated by Benon Potel. Among them were Joyce Kabanyoro and her sister Alice who attended Cadet training in the late 80s and are now senior officers. Another one was Grace Kabazahuki who after Cadet training took charge of guarding Museveni's daughters at school. Another one was Nyangoma who retired under in 1990 but rejoined later on and has been in Mogadishu under Amisom. Then there was Mercy Ruhinda of ISO and a few Nurses in the Military Hosipital. Otherwise majority of the 1985 female soldiers vanished into oblivion.
After capturing power, quite a good number of females from all over the country enlisted into the NRA. As had always been the trend, majority simply disappeared into the kitchens of their male counterparts because there was no clear policy to regulate their relationships. What was only in place was an unofficial policy for the NRM Vice Chairman to be the one to issue permits to the consenting partners for marriage. A few made it to clerical duties leaving the majority in a dilemma asSINGLE MOTHERS
and prostitutes. That is when a plan was devised to open up a womens' wing at Bombo with Proscovia Nalweyiso as the Commandant.Around 1987/88 a reasonable number of educated females enlisted into the NRA. Among them were Agnes Kasaami and Rose Kabuye fresh from MAKERERE UNIVERSITY
. After completing their basic military training at Kabamba they were posted to the army headquarters. Agnes Kasaami who had been the first female Ugandan university graduate to join the NRA was posted to work in the then Army Commanders office - then Gen Elly Tumwiine. Gen. Tumwiine instead fathered a kid with Agness and since then she lost her military career and went into oblivion. On her part, Rose Kabuye left with RPF to invade Rwanda where she rose through the ranks to become a Colonel and one time Kagame's Chief of Protocol. Throughout the proceeding years the NRA has attracted a good number of females some with university education. Senior army officers have seconded their daughters to join the forces just as a way of gaining employment. The recently created branch of Muhoozi's SFG in Police has also seen a number of them especially from the home district taking charge of the first family's SECURITY
. On his part Museveni continues to parade Brig. Proscovia Nalweyiso as the most senior NRA female. Being an illiterate, what calibre is she compared to Agnes Kasaami whose career was destroyed by Elly Tumwiine or Jesca Alupo who was retired and appointed Minister!INFORMATION IS POWER.
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