Museveni appoints senior advisers
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has appointed new senior presidential advisers, among them former Obote II minister for security Chris Rwakasisi.
By Steven Candia
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has appointed new senior presidential advisers, among them former Obote II minister for security Chris Rwakasisi.
Others appointed are ex–army chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Isaac Lumago, former Uganda Peoples Congress party president, Hajji Badru Wegulo, Tereza Mbire, former Bukoto West MP (rtd) Captain Mulindwa Birimumaaso and Osinde Wangor, a former South Central Tororo MP and government chief whip in Obote II.
Presidential spokesperson, Tamale Mirundi, yesterday said: “They were appointed recently and State House will issue a full list of the appointments soon,†Tamale said.
Rwakasisi, a former death row inmate, was released from Luzira prisons in 2009 under the presidential prerogative of mercy, ending more than 20 years of incarceration.
He was released together with Brig. Ali Fadhul, a former governor during Idi Amin’s regime who also served as commanding officer of the then dreaded Simba Batallion in Mbarara.
Wegulo and Wangor, former UPC stalwarts, defected to the NRM party together with Henry Mayega, another UPC member, last year at the launch of the NRM campaign manifesto at the Kampala Serena Hotel.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has appointed new senior presidential advisers, among them former Obote II minister for security Chris Rwakasisi.
Others appointed are ex–army chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Isaac Lumago, former Uganda Peoples Congress party president, Hajji Badru Wegulo, Tereza Mbire, former Bukoto West MP (rtd) Captain Mulindwa Birimumaaso and Osinde Wangor, a former South Central Tororo MP and government chief whip in Obote II.
Presidential spokesperson, Tamale Mirundi, yesterday said: “They were appointed recently and State House will issue a full list of the appointments soon,†Tamale said.
Rwakasisi, a former death row inmate, was released from Luzira prisons in 2009 under the presidential prerogative of mercy, ending more than 20 years of incarceration.
He was released together with Brig. Ali Fadhul, a former governor during Idi Amin’s regime who also served as commanding officer of the then dreaded Simba Batallion in Mbarara.
Wegulo and Wangor, former UPC stalwarts, defected to the NRM party together with Henry Mayega, another UPC member, last year at the launch of the NRM campaign manifesto at the Kampala Serena Hotel.