Colonel Ssemakula is dead

May 10, 2005

FORMER UPDF 3rd Division Commander Col. Sula Ssemakula is dead.

By Fortunate Ahimbisibwe
FORMER UPDF 3rd Division Commander Col. Sula Ssemakula is dead.

Ssemakula died on Monday evening at the International Hospital Kampala, where he was admitted last Tuesday.

Ssemakula was among the 28 UPDF senior officers President Yoweri Museveni sent on a one-year senior commanders’ course at the Senior Staff College in Kimaka, Jinja.

His longtime bodyguard, Richard Luyombya, yesterday said ssemakula died of severe pneumonia and headache.

Ssemakula served as the 3rd division commander and headed the disarmament exercise in Karamoja.

Ssemakula (right) was born in 1962 in Mubende.

He joined the National Resistance Army in 1981.

He will be buried today in Mijubwe, Kassanda in Mubende district.

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