BREAKING: Former CMI Boss Abel Kandiho Appointed Police Chief of Staff

President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has appointed former Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) boss Maj Gen Abel Kandiho the new chief of staff of the Uganda Police Force (UPF).

Maj Gen Kandiho will replace Maj Gen Jack Bakasumba.

Bakasumba has been appointed the Ugandan Delegate to the South Sudan Peace Monitoring Mechanism.

“H.E the President and C -in- C of the UPDF has appointed Maj Gen Abel Kandiho as Chief of Joint Staff of Uganda Police Force replacing Maj Gen Jack Bakasumba who has been appointed the Ugandan Delegate to the South Sudan Peace Monitoring Mechanism,” read a statement by UPDF spokesperson Brig Gen Felix Kulayigye.

Kandiho was fired recently following a meeting between President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Museveni’s son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. (Read story here).

He faces US sanctions. (Read story here).

Samuel Kamugisha

Samuel Kamugisha is a Ugandan journalist, editor, translator, language instructor, poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. A Makerere University graduate of Journalism and Communication with a decade-long experience in news reporting, writing and editing, Kamugisha is Editor at The Pearl Times. His other journalistic work was published by The Observer. When he is not doing journalism work -- which is rare -- Kamugisha will be reading or writing a short story or a poem, or caught up in the writer's block. His new children's book 'Friends of Plastics' has been published by Room to Read and Reading Association of Uganda and can be read here: https://literacycloud.org/stories/7887-friends-of-plastic/

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