Uganda military speaks out on deployment of soldiers to Kenya
The Government of Uganda has refuted claims that it intends to deploy soldiers in Kenya to help the Kenya police in the ongoing post-election security operation in the country.
In a statement issued on the August 14, the Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs Uganda Peoples’ Defense Force, denounced the allegations made in a story that appeared in one of the Ugandan newspapers, as “totally false, alarming and misleading”.
“UPDF refutes the story in a Sunday pepper on 13th of august 2017 alleging that UPDF is on a standby to support security operations in Kenya. It is also not true that we deployed after the last election and we evacuated the Kenyans president to Uganda,” read part of the statement.
It continued: “There are absolutely no such preparations and no team of officers has been sent out to Kenya in preparations of the same. The Republic of Kenya is a sovereign country and as such, its security and that of its people are exclusively within their domain.”
Below is the full statement:
