Why must Uganda have a huge and elaborate military that takes somewhere between
50 to 70% of our country's budget? Why?
This nonsense needs to be knocked off! We must care about our poeple, who are
the sources of revenues, instead of killing them off using humongous military
establishement!!
Ocii
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Defence shifts from Bombo to Mbuya
Grace Matsiko
KAMPALA
The Ministry of Defence headquarters have been shifted from Bombo to Mbuya
Hill, east of Kampala, as part of the implementation of the 2003 Uganda Defence
review.
The offices of the Minister of Defence, Dr Crispus Kiyonga, State Minister for
Defence Ruth Nankabirwa, acting Permanent Secretary Rosette Byengoma, the Chief
of Defence Forces, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima and his Deputy, ivan Koreta are among
those relocated to Mbuya summit.
"The defence headquarters are now in Mbuya but we are yet to make a formal
ceremony," the Defence and Army spokesman, Maj. Felix Kulayigye, said yesterday.
The move is meant to separate the Ministry from the army departments. The
development was mooted in the 2003 defence review report which stipulates that
the operational base of the land forces and the air force base be separated
from the ministry's headquarters.
In the new structure, Bombo complex remains the headquarters of Land Forces
under Lt. Gen. Katumba Wamala. UPDF Airforce under Maj. Gen. Jim Owoyesigire
has relocated to Nakasongola.
In a related development, the UPDF has relocated patients and staff at Mbuya
General Military Hospital complex on the lower part of the former barracks to
Nakasongola to prepare for the take over of the vast land by an investor. The
UPDF Logistic Department is currently handling the bid process but they are yet
to determine the lucky bidder.
Maj. Kulayigye said the army has shifted the patients and the staff from lower
Mbuya to Nakasongola to enable it (Nakasongola) assume its role as the UPDF
national referral hospital.
"Our plan for Mbuya Hospital land is that the investor takes over but builds us
a modern hospital," Maj. Kulayigye said.
Last week, Kampala City Council said Mbuya Army Primary School pupils were told
to shift to other government-aided schools to enable an investor take over the
land.
But Buganda government has protested the sale of the land where the barracks,
the hospital and the school sit.
However, defence says the land earmarked for sale is not under any contention.
"The school and the hospital are on a land which Buganda has no interests in,"
Maj. Kulayigye said.
He said the 49-year lease on land by the Buganda government expired in 2003.
"Under the law, after the expiry of the lease, the land lord can take back the
land or give the offer to another person. So it is not true that the UPDF has
grabbed Mengo land," he said.
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