{UAH} UPDF TO RETIRE BUSH WAR GENERALS

Gen David Sejusa will be retired next year as the army rolls out an eight-year timetable that will see nearly all Generals from the Bush War era allowed to leave the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF).
Gen Sejusa (formerly known as Tinyefuza) will be joined in civilian life by police chief, Gen Kale Kayihura, whose year of retirement on the schedule is 2020.
He leaves with another Bush War notable, Maj Gen Pecos Kuteesa, the other officer who, along with President Museveni and Opposition leader, retired Col Dr Kizza Besigye, have recorded the events of that guerilla war in books.
A year later, long-serving army representative in Parliament, Gen Elly Tumwine, will say his good byes. Joining him will be Lt Gen Ivan Koreta, who goes in 2019.

UPDF spokesman, Brig Richard Karemire, confirmed the plan to sniff dogs "it is an early notice strategy" premised on the need to prepare for proper retirement.

"The same happens in Civil Service when upon joining, one gets to know when they will be retiring. So, it is the same thing we are rolling out that as one joins the service, they as well know when they will be leaving," Brig Karemire said.
At least 2,175 officers and men will leave the army over the next eight years, including nearly all Bush War Generals, who between 1980 and 1986 fought alongside Mr Museveni in the bushes of Luweero against the government of two-time former president, Apollo Milton Obote, and the short-lived Gen Tito Okello military junta. That war brought Mr Museveni's National Resistance Movement government to power in January 1986.

Former head at the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence, the bookish Maj Gen James Mugira, takes his bow in 2023.
The commander of Land Forces, Maj Gen Peter Elwelu, the man who in November last year commanded the deadly operation which left more than 130 civilians, including women and children, dead as the police and army raided the royal seat of Rwenzururu's King Charles Wesley Mumbere in Kasese, leaves in 2024.
Gen Sejusa applied for retirement when he returned from exile in 2014, but was refused. From next year, he will be free to indulge his passion for politics – an option unavailable to serving personnel who are barred from partisan political activity by law. He has continually accused President Museveni of using military law to hold army officers "hostage", an allegation the army has dismissed.

The first batch of about 400 soldiers, including senior and junior officers, will retire in November. The last group leaves in 2025. Two batches will be retired every year, starting next year

Retirement Plan

2018

Maj Gen Joram Mugume
Maj Gen Pecos Kutesa
Maj Gen Sam Turyagyenda
Maj Gen Joshua Masaba

2019

Gen Elly Tumwine
Lt Gen Ivan Koreta
Brig Waswa Balikalege
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2020

Gen Kale Kayihura
Lt Gen Jim Owoyesigire
Maj Gen Silver Kayemba
Brig Joram Kakari

2021

Lt Gen Andrew Gutti
Maj Gen Proscovia Nalweyiso
Brig Steven Kashaka
Maj Gen Nakibus Lakara
Brig Sam Kavuma

2023

Lt Gen Wilson Mbadi
Maj Gen James Mugira
Maj Gen Fred Luciana
Brig Lucky Kidega
2024

Maj Gen Peter Elwelu
Maj Gen Charles Lutaya.

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