M7 appoints 4 UPDF senior officers to head Police Directorates

By Francis Otucu

President Yoweri Museveni has appointed four senior UPDF officers to head sensitive police directorates. The officers are; Brig. Jack Bakashumba, Brig. Godfrey Golooba, Col. Jese Kamuwanwire and Col. Chris S. Damulira. According to an official communication authored by the IGP Martins Okoth Ochola last night; Bakashumba is the Police Chief of Staff while Golooba, Kamuwanwire and Damulira will head Directorate of Human Resource Development and Training, Directorate of Human Resource Administration and Directorate of Crime Intelligence respectively. In the same appointment, AIGP Haruna Isabirye who has been in charge of Human Resource Development and Training has been dropped and sent to New York as an attaché while SCP Charles Oyo-Nyeko has been dropped from Interpol and International Relations and sent to AFRIPOL as Liaisons Officer. SCP Amur Chome has also been dropped from Crime Intelligence and sent to Interpol as Deputy Director. His boss is AIGP Moses Balimwoyo whose docket has been Human Resource Administration. Ochola said the process of formalizing the appointments of the said UPDF officers is on course and that the Deputy IGP will preside over hand over occasions once all appointments have been made formal.