General A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of highest military ranks, high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers t ...

Joram Mugume, is a

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in the

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(UPDF). He is the chairman of the board of directors of the

National Enterprise Corporation The National Enterprise Corporation (NEC) is a state-owned corporation in Uganda. It is the commercial arm of the Uganda People's Defence Force. NEC was established in 1989 by an Act of the Parliament of Uganda. Its investments and activities in ...

(NEC), the business arm of the UPDF. He was appointed to that position by the Uganda Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs, on 20 February 2018. He has also served as the chairman of the "Military Land Board", an organ of the UPDF. He has been serving in that position since 2005, having served as Deputy Chief of Defense Forces in the past.

Background

He was born in

Kiruhura District Kiruhura District is a district in the Western Region of Uganda. The town of Rushere is the site of the district headquarters. Location Kiruhura District is bordered by Kamwenge District and Kyegegwa District to the north, Sembabule District to ...

, in Uganda's Western Region.

Overview

Joram Mugume was one of the first people to join the

National Resistance Army The National Resistance Army (NRA), the military wing of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), was a rebel army that waged a guerrilla war, commonly referred to as the Ugandan Bush War or Luwero War, against the government of Milton Obote, and l ...

(NRA). His military number is RO/00037, meaning he was the 37th recruit. At the time NRA captured

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in 1986, Mugume was the Commander of the 3rd Battalion. Later, he served as deputy army commander. When General

David Sejusa General David Sejusa (born 13 November 1954) (aka David Tinyefuza) is a Ugandan lawyer, military officer and politician. He was the coordinator of intelligence services and a senior presidential adviser to President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni. He ...

was kicked out of the Ugandan parliament, Joram Mugume was one of the five military officers nominated to replace him. In May 2016, President Yoweri Museveni promoted him to the rank of lieutenant general. In February 2019, he was promoted from Lieutenant General to the rank of a

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, in a promotions exercise that involved over 2,000 men and women of the UPDF.

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Clarification on Army ranks story - 27 August 2009
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mugume, Joram People from Kiruhura District Living people Ugandan military personnel People from Western Region, Uganda Ugandan generals 1952 births

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