Pain ‘Uganda’s finest’ soldiers have to endure to honour flag

Uganda's troops under Amisom

Uganda's troops under Amisom on patrol in Somalia on July 17, 2016. PHOTO | MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB | AFP

On March 1, the General Court Martial in Kampala jailed two soldiers of Uganda Peoples Defence Forces for spreading harmful propaganda.

In January, the two had recorded and released a video to the mainstream and social media, in which L/Cpl Apollo Bigirwa, 41, vented his anger, pain, desperation and curses at President Yoweri Museveni, Commander-in-Chief of the UPDF, over the treatment they had undergone in the Somalia peacekeeping mission.