[RwandaLibre] Sudan Tribune - 8 hours ago: Ugandan army officer in charge of presidential guards defects
Ugandan army officer in charge of presidential guards defects
Sudan Tribune - 8 hours ago
June 23, 2014 (KAMPALA) - The commander of Uganda's elite military
force in charge of protecting President Yoweri Museveni, has rebelled
against the government allegedly to join a new rebellion seeking to
topple the latter.

Lt. Alfred Ntare, the commander of Uganda's elite military force
(PPU/File photo)
Lieutenant Alfred Ntare RO reportedly fled with 16 other officers who
deserted their posts last week and moved to unknown locations in
Uganda.
Uganda's shadow minister of defence and security, Hassan Kaps
Funngaroo, also confirmed to Press TV the defection of the
presidential guard's elite commander, but downplayed the impact of the
move.
Funngaroo, however, acknowledged serious issues haunting the Ugandan
forces, saying the undocumented countless deaths of Ugandan troops
serving on the front lines in South Sudan and other places has
triggered growing discontent within the military.
A number of Ugandan MPs have recently called for withdrawal of the
Ugandan People's Defence Forces (UPDF) from South Sudan, saying
"countless" and unknown number of soldiers are unaccounted for and
were believed to have been killed in the war against the rebels
battling president Salva Kiir's government for the last six months.
Uganda has deployed thousands of troops backed by tanks and helicopter
gunships to help protect Juba's leadership from possible takeover by
the rebels led by the former vice president, Riek Machar.
The Ugandan shadow security minister said that low pay in salaries and
poor systems of promotion have also resulted in to the growing
indiscipline among the UPDF forces inside the country.
Funngaroo, however, said a military police force was being deployed to
hunt down the defected officers in the country.
There are fears that the presidential unit commander may have joined
the emerging rebel group, the Freedom and Unity Front, which is said
to have established a base in the west of the country, demanding a
change in government and a balanced distribution of resources to all
regions of the country.
Meanwhile, the Ugandan embassy in the South Sudanese capital, Juba,
has warned its citizens in South Sudan not to travel along the
Juba-Yei and Juba-Yambio roads, saying its intelligence sources had
indicated imminent security threats in these areas.
Sources, however, said the new development was not directly connected
to the defection of the senior Ugandan army officer.
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