Lieutenant General Peter Elwelu

General Wilson Mbasu Mbadi and Lieutenant General Peter Elwelu the head and deputy of the military were moved to the civil service as minister for trade and as presidential advisor respectively...

Deputy Chief of Defence Forces Lt Gen Peter Elwelu this year put the military on high alert after Kainerugaba suggested that the UPDF should wrap up its operation Shujaa in Congo-Kinshasa where it has deployed to take on the Islamic State-backed Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) who perpetrated a terror attack in the Ugandan capital in November 2021...

While Uganda's chief of military staff Wilson Mbadi attended last month's Nairobi summit his deputy Peter Elwelu told the media that Uganda's army had been placed on 'class 1 standby' the highest form of alert...

Peter Elwelu for example is an Iteso from Kumi District in eastern Uganda who was appointed Commander of Land Forces and promoted from Brigadier to Major General...