The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has ordered for the arrest of the UPDF engineers Brigade commander Brig Gen Cyrus Besigye Bekunda over alleged corruption.
In a post via his X on Tuesday, the CDF said Bekunda was arrested alongside other officers from the Engineers Brigade over corruption and financial mismanagement which he said contaminated the principles the UPDF stands for.
“Yesterday, I ordered the arrest of Brig Bekunda Besigye and other officers of the Engineers Brigade. They poisoned, contaminated, and desecrated a sacred principle we have always embraced as UPDF—that we can be self-sufficient and efficient. They received money and misused it! Let their punishment serve as a lesson to others” Muhoozi posted on X.
Brig Bekunda is among the latest high-ranking officers targeted in Gen Kainerugaba’s ongoing anti-corruption crackdown within the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF).
This latest arrest reinforces Gen Kainerugaba’s zero-tolerance stance on graft within the military.