Tag Archives: Peter Elwelu

KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has dismissed reports suggesting that former Deputy Chief of Defence Forces, Lt Gen Peter Elwelu, has been forced into early retirement by the army leadership. Speculation has been rife since Lt Gen Elwelu’s name appeared on the list of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Colonel Freddy Joseph Onata, the Chief Executive Officer of the UPDF’s Savings and Credit Cooperative -Wazalendo, has expressed confidence to achieve their target of being a One trillion asset institution by next year. He said said the SACCO boasts a membership of over 100,000, share capital of …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The deputy chief of defense forces, Lt. Gen. Peter Elwelu has challenged UPDF commanders to operate within the set legal frameworks in international humanitarian law, laws on refugees and other related military laws. Elwelu made the remarks during the commissioning of the Jinja based legal …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Chief of Defense Forces, Lt. Gen. Peter Elwelu has tasked newly commissioned junior officers to desist from engaging in corruption tendencies, which he says could threaten their career growth. While addressing the junior officers who underwent a five weeks course in pan-Africanism and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Parliament has concluded the administration of oath for Members of Parliament.   The Eleventh parliament will have the highest number of legislators who have increased from 426 MPs in the Tenth Parliament to 529. During the four day exercise, each MP took the Oath of Allegiance …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  General Peter Elwelu, the newly elected Army Representative in Parliament  has said that the more than  100 Royal guards who were killed during the Kasese clashes were criminals ‘who deserved what they got.’ The police and military agencies have been repeatedly accused of killing more …

Karamoja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A decision by the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces-UPDF to phase out the Local Defence Unit has left many of them broken and pleading with the authorities not to victimised them.    Lt. General Peter Elwelu, the Commander of Land Forces announced that the UPDF was …

Karamoja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The general public in Karamoja sub region in the north eastern Uganda is welcoming a ban on LDUs in the sub-region by UPDF command describing it as “great news”. On Wednesday Lt. Gen. Peter Elwelu, the commander of land forces announced that army has decided …

Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Brig Gen Muhanga Kayanja has taken over as the new Commander of Mountain Division in the Rwenzori Sub-region.  Kayanja has replaced Brig-Gen Moses Kwikiriza who was the commander of the division since 2019 when it was created. Last month, President Kaguta Museveni appointed Brig-Gen …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Eliot L Engel, the chairperson of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs wants several Ugandan security officials sanctioned for human rights violations and brutalizing Ugandans.  They are Gen. Peter Elwelu, the Commander of Land Forces, Maj. Gen. James Birungi, Commander of the Special Forces …