Museveni replaces Kandiho as delegate to South Sudan’s CTSAMVM

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has recalled Maj Gen Abel Kandiho from South Sudan’s Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangement Monitoring and Verification Mechanism (CTSAM-VM).

Kandiho has been appointed to head the Joint Chief of Staff of the Uganda Police Force, just two weeks after he was removed from the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) and transferred as a delegate to the South Sudan Peace Monitoring Mechanism.

In a statement announced by the army, and Ministry of Defence Spokesperson, Lt Col Ronald Kakurungu, through a tweet on Tuesday evening, Gen Kandiho was recalled back to the country and was given a new task as Chief of Joint Staff for the Uganda Police Force.

Gen Kandiho will replace Maj Gen Jack Bakasumba, who has now been named Uganda’s Delegate to the South Sudan Peace Monitoring Mechanism.

The statement partly reads “His Excellency the President Yoweri Museveni has appointed Maj. Gen. Abel Kandiho as Chief of the Joint Staff of the Uganda Police Force, replacing Maj. Gen. Jack Bakasumba, who has been appointed the Ugandan Delegate to the South Sudan Peace Monitoring Mechanism.”

Gen Kandiho was replaced as Chief of the CMI on January 25, fulfilling one of the conditions for the thawing of Uganda-Rwanda relations.

Two weeks ago, General Abel Kandiho was appointed to the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangement Monitoring and Verification Mechanism.

The rationale for the reorganisation has not been given by the UPDF spokesperson.

However, some people questioned Gen. Kandiho’s appointment two weeks ago, claiming that he had been sanctioned by the US government for suspected human rights violations during the Ugandan election last year.

Gen. Bakasumba was the Chief of Joint Security.