Lt Gen Peter Elwelu and other retiring UPDF Generals will pocket billions as part of their juicy retirement packages.
Apart from Lt Gen Elwelu, other UPDF generals who have been document for retirement include: Major Generals Hudson Mukasa, Francis Ben Okello, and George Igumba; as well as Brigadier Generals John Byuma, Dominic Twesigomwe, and Augustine Kamyuka Kyazze.
Before we delve into the retirement packages, let us look at a few short profiles of retiring officers:
LT GEN PETER ELWELU
Lt Gen Peter Elwelu served as Deputy Chief of Defence Forces (D-CDF) from June 2021 to March 2024 before he was fired and appointed a presidential advisor – missing a chance to become the CDF, the highest position in the UPDF command (currently held by first son Gen Muhoozi Kaineruagaba).
Before he was appointed D-CDF, Elwelu was Commander of Land Forces from 2017 to 2021.
He also previously served as the UPDF 2nd Division in Mbarara.
He is mostly remembered for commanding the 2016 attack on the Rwenzururu Kingdom Palace in Kasese killing over 100 people and arresting Omusinga Charles Wesley Mumbere.
Elwelu also commanded UPDF troops in Somalia under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in 2007.
MAJOR GENERAL HUDSON MUKASA
From 2016 until today, Maj Gen Hudson Mukasa has been serving as the UPDF attaché to Kenya.
Before being sent to Kenya, he was Uganda’s military attaché to Burundi.
He fought in the National Resistance Army from around 1983. Trained in Tanzania, Ghana, and Kenya, Mukasa was commander of the UPDF 2nd Division in Mbarara (2005–2008), the 5th Division in Lira (2008), and the 503 Brigade in Kitgum. He is famous for his operations against Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
MAJOR GENERAL FRANCIS BEN OKELLO
From March 2008 to 2009, Major General Francis Ben Okello commanded Ugandan troops in Somalia, become the second commander of AMISOM.
He would then head Uganda Senior Command and Staff College (USCSC) where senior army officers are trained.
JUICY RETIREMENT PACKAGE
He added that the proposed amendments to the UPDF Act, 2005, would offer greater welfare support, including access to healthcare, disability compensation, and full burial honours.
Presiding over the documentation ceremony of the retiring officers, Chief of Joint Staff Major General Jack Bakasumba talked of the retirement of the top generals and others as “bliss” alluding to juicier packages.
“There is a whole new kind of life ahead, full of experience, just waiting to happen. Some call it retirement, I call it bliss,” quoted Maj GenBakasumba, citing American biochemist Betty Sullivan, according to the UPDF’s official record of the event.
He also revealed that the proposed amendments to the UPDF Act, 2005, will “offer greater welfare support, including access to healthcare, disability compensation, and full burial honours” for the retiring officers, the UPDF record further read.
“[For] most of you, the package is well above Shs1bn. That is very good money,” said Bakasumba.
“So, surely if someone has a house and a means of transport, it is soft landing just.”
The juicier retirement packages of about Shs1bn for the generals have been informed by the increment of their salaries in 2022. (See how much top UPDF officers earn Here).
In 2023, reports indicated that the retiring packages for officers at the rank of brigadier general and major general was somewhere between Shs400m and Shs600m.
The retiring generals are also entitled to a house, gratuity, an official vehicle and three escorts.
You can read more about Peter Elwelu, the butcher of Kasese and destroyer of satanic places of worship, as well as his church Here, There and Over There.
Meanwhile, the list of most highly paid State House employees earning between Shs30m and Shs10m is Here.
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