Politics

LT. GEN. PETER ELWELU COULD BE ILL

Elwelu in his happy days

Anxiety has engulfed the people of Rwenzururu Kingdom after receiving scanty information that one of the deadly Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces ‘UPDF’ commander for Land Forces LT. Gen. Peter Elwelu has been attacked by a strange yet to be known illness.

According to information exclusively ascertained from UPDF’s land forces headquarters in Bombo, Gen. Elwelu has been bedridden for two weeks with a yet to be identified mental illness which stopped him from accurately doing his daily forces’ work.

Mbu a team of doctors from UPDF and experts from Butabika for the past one week have been secretly treating Gen. Elwelu at his private residence in Bombo.

Following the attack, all officers and other daily visitors have been blocked by UPDF from accessing him until he recovers very well.

’’He begun with severe headache, later he nausea and started shouting and singing alone in Office. When the situation became tense, his wife informed his seniors that is the Commander in Chief Gen. David Muhoozi and Deputy CDF Gen. Wilson Mbadi who with immediate effect assigned a special medical team to work on him before his mental health could get out of hand,” a family member said.

A family member further confirmed to us that UPDF Medical family has managed to secure one of the most expensive and specialized mental drugs from Germany which has been injected into Gen. Elwelu’s blood.

Gen. Elwelu became popular in 2016 November 27-28 when he led the army attack on the Rwenzururu king’s palace in In the aftermath of the killings, he said he did not regret anything, referring to some of the people who had died in the exchange, particularly the Rwenzururu royal guards, as “terrorists.”

In March, Human Rights Watch issued a critical report that blamed government security forces’ highhandedness for the massive killings.

“The assault on the palace in Kasese, which killed more people than any single event since the height of the war in Northern Uganda over a decade ago, should not be swept under the carpet,” said Maria Burnett, associate Africa director at Human Rights Watch, in a statement that accompanied the release of the report.
“People in Kasese are still looking for their family members, including children, and they deserve answers and justice for these gruesome killings.”

But later, Government of Uganda through spokesperson Ofwono Opondo dismissed the report.

Last year, Lt Gen. Peter Elwelu built a worship centre at his home in Anyara sub-county, Kalaki district. The complex, which he named ‘House of the Almighty Father in Heaven Elohim’, is attached to his family house. It was commissioned by President Yoweri Museveni .

Ever since the attack of Charles Wesley Mumbere’s palace attack, People of Kasese and other surrounding areas wish, Gen. Elwelu nothing good.

Efforts to speak to UPDF Spokesperson Brig.Richard Karemaire for a comment were futile as his well-known contacts were not going through.