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Butaleja to host Tarahe Sita celebrations

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The Uganda People’s Defense Forces have released the program for the 37th Tarehe Sita anniversary celebrations and the 1st East African Community Armed Forces Day to take place on February 6, 2018 at Boma Grounds in Butaleja district.

In a statement released by the UPDF publicist Brig. Richard Karemire, said the week-long celebrations to be held under the theme: ‘Reaffirming the Contribution of the Armed Forces towards Regional Integration for our Strategic Security, Development and Prosperity’, will commence on Tuesday, January 30 with an official national launch at the Ministry of Defense and Veteran Affairs/UPDF headquarters in Mbuya.

“The UPDF will be joined during the week-long activities by the East African Community Partner States Armed Forces from the East African Community (EAC) countries of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan and Tanzania,” noted Brig. Karemire.

According to the UPDF spokesperson, the decision for the collaboration is in line with the decision by the Army Council to link the military and ‘wanainchi’ as the EAC countries integrate.

He also said there would be a regional launch in Butaleja District on Wednesday January 31, and that district launches will be conducted on Thursday, February 1 at the district headquarters of Pallisa, Budaka, Kibuku, Tororo and Busia.

“Civil military activities will therefore be conducted by the medical and engineering contingents of all the forces in all the districts of Butaleja, Pallisa, Budaka, Kibuku, Tororo and Busia,” Brig. Karemire disclosed.

Further, he said, the rest of UPDF formations and units including those deployed abroad will carry out various activities in support of communities in their areas of operation.

Tarehe Sita week is marked annually in commemoration of the first armed attack on Kabamba Army Barracks on February 6, 1981, during which President Yoweri Museveni launched the five-year guerrilla war that eventually propelled him to power on January 26, 1986.

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