Former Museveni bodyguard killed by Covid19

Former President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s bodyguard Captain (Rtd) Alex Opolot has succumbed to Covid19.

Capt Opolot passed on at Prime Hospital in Namugongo at the weekend.

Here is former Museveni bodyguard Capt Alex Opolot’s profile:

Date of birth: January 21, 1962

Place of birth: Bukedea District

Education

Attended Kumi Primary School and Father Hilder’s Primary School (Primary)

Soroti Secondary School (Secondary)

Busitema College of Agriculture and Mechanization

Career

Worked at Peko Machinery Works, Soroti

Joined army

Joined Presidential Protection Unit (PPU)

Part of Uganda’s peacekeeping contingent in Somalia

Attached to ISO

Deployed in war against Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)

Retired from army to work for Arrow Security Group (owned by Captain Mike Mukula)

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