PRESIDENT MUSEVENI AND TSHISEKEDI HAILED FOR SANCTIONING OPERATION SHUJAA
"We have been in this operation since November 2021, and we periodically do reviews to see the progress in order to totally annihilate the ADF together with our comrades in the FARDC," said Gen. Mbadi.
By Our Reporter
KINSHASA: The Chief of Defense Forces of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces, Gen. Wilson Mbasu Mbadi, and his counterpart, Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), Lt. Gen. Christian Tshiwewe Songesha, chaired a joint FARDC-UPDF operations evaluation meeting that was held in Beni, DRC, on Thursday.
Gen. Mbadi said that they were reviewing the progress of Operation Shujaa, which was commissioned by the Presidents of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in order to bring peace and security to the eastern part of the DRC.
“We have been in this operation since November 2021, and we periodically do reviews to see the progress in order to totally annihilate the ADF together with our comrades in the FARDC,” said Gen. Mbadi.
The CDF said that the aim of the meeting was to evaluate the progress of Operation Shujaa so that they could come up with other mechanisms to achieve the objectives of the operation.
Speaking on behalf of the Chief of General Staff of FARDC, Lt. Gen. Christian Tshiwewe Songesha, the Governor of North Kivu, Lt. Gen. Constant Ndima Kongba, thanked His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and His Excellency Felix Tshisekedi Tshilombo for sanctioning the joint operation to totally uproot the terrorist movement of the ADF, which was a huge threat to both countries.
“We joined the forces of the FARDC and UPDF in order to uproot this threat in order to bring peace to the people of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the military, we are determined to finish the mission that was assigned to us by the two heads of state,” said Lt. Gen. Ndima.
Lt. Gen. Ndima added that the results of the operation so far have proved that both the FARDC and the UPDF have done a commendable job in terms of achieving the objectives of the operation.
The two forces later signed a joint evaluation report on the progress of Operation Shujaa.
The meeting was attended by the Commander Land Forces, Lt Gen Kayanja Muhanga, Chief of Military Intelligence, Maj Gen James Birungi, Military Assistant to the CDF, Brig Gen Irumba Tingira, Colonel James Kasule, and Colonel Paul Muwonge.
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