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President Museveni has promoted five Senior Commissioners of Police to Assistant Inspector General Police.
According to police spokesperson, Kituuma Rusoke, the president has promoted James Apora( director logistics and engineering), Lawrence Niwabiine(director traffic police), Joseph Obwona( Interpol), Steven Tanui( Fire and rescue services) and Geoffrey Musana to the next rank of AIGP.The Nile Post has separately learnt that the promotions were meant to align the senior police officers with their current offices.
For example, Apora, Niwabiine, Obwona and Tanui were serving as directors for logistics, traffic police, and fire and rescue services in acting capacity and therefore had to be promoted to the next rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police.
Police directors must be at the rank of AIGP, the third highest rank in the force.
The promotions have also seen Geoffrey Musana appointed the deputy director for logistics and engineering.
