#GENERAL ELLY TUMWINE BIOGRAPHY
1. Who is Elly Tumwine?
General Elly Tumwine is a Uganda military
General who has served in the Nnational Resistence Government since 1986 when
President YK Museveni took over power. He is a former mister of Security in
Uganda.
2. Where was Elly Tumwine born?
General Elly Tumwine was born on 12 April
1954in Burungu, Mbara District in Western Uganda where he spent his childhood
with family and primary education.
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3. Where did Elly Tumwine study from?
General Elly Tumwine studied at Burungu
Primary School Finishing his Primary Leaving Examinations before joining Mbarara
High School and St Henry’s Kitovu where he received his UCE and UACE
Certificates respectively later joining Makerere to pursue a Bachelor of Arts
in Fine Art.
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4. When
did Elly Tumwine join the UPDF Army?
General Elly Tumwine is popularly known to
have shot the first bullet by the National R4esistance movent in Uganda during
the start of the Bush war in 1981.
General Elly Tumwine
Joined
the army in 1981 as he joined with Museveni to fight the Obote Regime.
5. Did Elly Tumwine order for the shooting of
protestors?
General Elly Tumwine as Minister of
Security in 2020 was accused by the public for having ordered the shooting at
protestors that caused death of over 31 people. However the military general
defended himself saying he didn’t order anything related to that but rather it
was some self-defense of some officers of the Police who were being attacked
and others were stray bullets.
6. Why was Elly Tumwine replaced as Minister
for Security?
General Elly Tumwine was replaced with
fellow military general Jim Muhwezi after a surpricse shuffle by the President
where Jim Muhwezi was appointed Minister of Security on 11 July 2021 after the
Uganda Genral Elections
7. What is Elly Tumwine net worth?
General Elly Tumwine has net worthoof over
1.1 billion Ugandan Shillings with most of his Revenue coming from his Ankole
Farm and from the offices the military officer has served in. With his highest
being over 279 million Ugandan shillings annually in 2018.
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