Hudson Mukasa

Hudson Mukasa is a Major General in the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF). Since June 2016, he has been the Military Attaché to Uganda's Embassy to Kenya, based in Nairobi. Before that he served as the Military Attaché at Uganda's Embassy to Burundi, based in Bujumbura.

Background and education He was born in the Buganda Region of Uganda in the 1963. He attended the military cadet course at the Tanzania Military Academy, in Monduli, in the late 1980s. He then attended a Senior Staff and Command course in the early 1990s, in Ghana. He has also graduated from the National Strategic Studies Course, at the National Defence College, Kenya.

Military career Mukasa joined the National Resistance Army, the precursor to the Uganda People's Defence Forces, in 1983. He has served in various command roles in the UPDF, including as the Commander of the 2nd UPDF Division, based at Makenke, in Mbarara, in the Western Region of Uganda, from 2005 until 2008. He then commanded the 5th UPDF Division, in 2008. At that time the 5th Division was based in Lira, Lango sub-region, in Uganda's Northern Region.

On 28 March 2020, he was promoted from the rank of Brigadier to Major General.

Controversy In 2008, while serving as he Commanding Officer of the 5th UPDF Division, based in Lira, Uganda, Brigadier Hudson Mukasa was implicated in the misappropriation of USh 256 million (approx. US$102,400 at that time), in salary arrears for men and women under his command.