The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (Amendment) Bill 2025 – or UPDF Amendment Bill 2025 – was tabled before Uganda’s Parliament for the first time during plenary on May 13.
Tabled by Jacob Oboth Oboth, the Minister of Defence and Veteran Affairs, the UPDF Amendment Bill 2025, was referred to the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee.
The Pearl Times can confirm that the committee has officially started processing the UPDF (Amendment) Bill, 2025.
Among other things, the UPDF Amendment Bill 2025 seeks to cure is the clear prescription of the arms, ammunition and classified stores that are a monopoly of the Defence Forces.
Schedule B of the bill on classified stores lists several marks, insignia, accessories and uniforms as belonging to the UPDF.
A total of 11 items are listed as Defence Forces uniform. They include tunic uniform, ceremonial uniform, Kaunda suit, Tuck-in uniform, DPM 95 with tuck-in shirt, fatigue dress-plain army green, Plain army green for Reserves, Battle Dress Uniform (BDU) (combat), MULTICAM combat uniform, Headgear, and footwear.
For this report, The Pearl Times is focusing on Kaunda suits. If passed into law, the amendment bill will make Kaunda suits in love green, sky blue and coffee brown a preserve of the UPDF.
The bill describes a Kaunda suit uniform as “an office working dress for the Defence Forces.”
It lists the details of the Kaunda suit uniform as the jacket being olive green for Land Forces, sky blue for Air Forces and coffee brown for Special Forces Command.
The bill also describes the Kaunda suit uniform’s trouser as being of the same material as the jacket.
The implication for this is that Kaunda suits of the details listed above may soon be landing civilians in trouble with military courts if the UPDF Amendment Bill is passed into law.
“A civilian who is found in unlawful possession of arms, ammunition or equipment ordinarily being the monopoly of the Defence Forces, prescribed in schedule 7A to this Act or classified stores prescribed in schedule 7B to this Act commits an offence under any written law,” an excerpt from the 150-page bill reads.
You can read the circumstances under which civilians will be tried in the military courts Here.
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