STATE HOUSE – ENTEBBE
President Yoweri Museveni on Thursday received a group of retiring army Generals whom he congratulated and send off in glory and diginity.
The meeting was held at State House in Entebbe. Among the now retired generals, was the former Inspector General of Police, Kale Kayihura.
Museveni cautioned them to productively invest their retirement packages to avoid regrets in future. “You have been working for your country, time has come to start working for yourselves,” Museveni said.
The President’s message reads;
This afternoon at State House, Entebbe, I was pleased to congratulate and send off in glory and dignity the retiring Generals from the UPDF. I commend them for their longtime contribution to our struggle.
The stories of these retiring Generals mirror the miraculous story of the NRA struggle. We fought for a just cause, combining the correctness of the strategy and the tactics, doing it correctly without making mistakes, always taking scientific steps, and avoiding anything adventurous.
Their retirement should not be regarded as a redundancy but a mutation from one service to another. In the past, they were working for the country only, but now they can work for themselves with the entandikwa that the country they fought for has given them.
I wish them success in the next phase of their lives.