By Nasser Kasozi Akandwanaho
President Museveni Thursday grieved following the death of former security minister Gen Elly Tumwine on August 25.
“He has been a dedicated and hard-working cadre,” Mr Museveni said of the army officer who played a major role in a guerilla struggle that started his presidency in 1986.
President Yoweri Museveni confirmed that Gen Tumwine,68, succumbed to lung cancer at 5:46am from a hospital in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
From the time he joined the Ugandan leader’s resistance movement in 1980, Gen Tumwine has been part of the top leadership of the army and a lynchpin of Mr Museveni’s government.
“More will be said about him later. Condolences to his family, to the NRA-UPDF- NRM fraternity and to all Ugandans. May his soul rest in eternal peace,” Mr Museveni wrote on Twitter.
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Quoting the Bible, First son and UPDF land forces commander Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba said: “immortality means he is without a father, without a mother, without a genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life….he remains a priest forever (Hebrews 7:3)’. May Almighty God receive you into His everlasting arms Afande Tumwine.”
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