The Uganda People’s Defence Forces -UPDF’s Chief Legal Services Brig Gen Gordan Busingye, has advised legal advisors and commanders to always understand the challenges and opportunities involved in an operational setting.
Brig Gen Busingye said the force’s legal advisors commonly referred to as LEGADs must interest themselves in knowing operation missions because it enhances operational effectiveness. He was officiating a three days operational expert LEGADs and commanders workshop in Kampala.
Col Deo Akiiki said the workshop aimed at understanding issues related to the employment of operational LEGADs and commanders across Africa; including National Legislation governing their employment, selection, training and identifying mechanisms that enhance operational effectiveness.
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Akiiki said this was the first meeting held to discuss issues concerning Operational Legal Advisors (LEGADs) and Commanders. The next meeting is expected to be hosted in Belgium. Brig Gen reaffirmed the importance of such meetings in finding sustainable solutions to common security challenges affecting the sustainability of regional peace and stability.
“The UPDF Leadership has no doubt whatsoever, that the three days meeting has achieved its objective of putting together generated approaches and strategies to deal with common security threats in the region and the role of Operational Legal Advisors in providing a shared view of how best to prepare Commanders in an operation setting,” Brig Gen Busingye said.
The participants were urged to follow and implement the recommendations for the continuity of such engagements that require concerted regional and global efforts to achieve cooperation in sharing intelligence when conducting coordinated operations.
Akiiki quoted the Head of Operations, Regional Delegation to Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi Martin Agure Oguya applauding members for the fruitful discussions that will guide participants to a better Eastern Africa and Africa.
“I attribute the success of this workshop to the efforts and enthusiasm you exhibited while actively contributing to the discussions, not forgetting our very able facilitators who diligently provided guidance throughout the workshop,” Oguya said.
The LEGADs and Commanders were drawn from ten member countries that include Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Netherlands, South Africa, South Sudan, Switzerland and Uganda as hosts. The army bosses from the different countries that attended the workshop include Brig Gen Hirpo Mesheda Areda-Ethiopia, Division Operations Training Officer Col Amstrong Ndugga, Col Carl Marchand from Switzerland, Commandant Legal Training Center Lt Col Suzan Mwanga, Lt Col Arthur Te Lintelo-Netherlands, Lt Col Felix Kioko- Kenya, Regional Facilators, ICRC Staff and Course Participants.