ELECTROCUTED! Fresh Details Emerge on UPDF General’s Death

Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) says Brig Gen Stephen Kiggundu, the Deputy Commander of the Air Force, was electrocuted.

Brig Gen Kiggundu was last seen at a public event on Thursday, March 28, as Gen Wilson Mbasu Mbadi handed over the office of Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) to first son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba at the fourth division headquarters in Gulu.

Kiggundu breathed his last in the evening of Sunday, March 31. He died in a bathroom at his official residence in Entebbe.

Initially, it had been thought that a bathroom fall had claimed the life of Brig Gen Kiggundu.

But UPDF spokesperson Brig Gen Felix Kulaigye has now said that Brig Gen Kiggundu was electrocuted.

“What we got from his home was that he was electrocuted while he was having a bath. That’s what we have,” said Kulaigye.

“The death occurred [in the] evening. Most likely after he had exercised he was going to have a shower.”

This is the report the army got from Brig Gen Kiggundu’s family on his cause of death.

The UPDF is now investigating circumstances under which the electrocution happened, costing the national army of an experienced pilot who became the first Ugandan to fly the Sukhoi, the fighter jet made in Russia. Will the probe unearth some twists and turns?