A not-yet confirmed report suggests that President Paul Kagame may be decorated among heroes who played a big role in Uganda’s liberation war in 1986.
Placed source told IGIHE.com Kagame who will have a four-day state visit beginning January 22, will go Uganda on an invitation from his counterpart Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
Kagame has been invited to attend the highly celebrated event of January 26 in commemoration of Uganda’s National Resistance Army (NRA) guerilla army that toppled the Gen. Tito Okello Lutwa’s military rule.
Highly placed source said that honoring Kagame is a vow fulfilled of a promise President Museveni made in his recent visit to Rwanda that he will belatedly reward Kagame for “his role in NRA liberation war.”
“Kagame who head of intelligence is said to have been the first 27 NRA fighters,” the source said.
This year’s ceremony will be held under the theme, “Uganda, the Land of Opportunities: NRM’s contribution during the last half of the 50 years of Uganda’s independence,”.
On the other hand, Kagame has also honored his counterpart in Uganda, listed among heroes for his contribution in 1990 liberation war that stopped the 1994 Genocide.
President Museveni was in Rwanda 2009 attending the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) 15th anniversary celebrations at Amahoro Stadium, during which he was decorated with two medals.
One medal is in honour of his contribution to the RPF struggle that liberated Rwanda, while the other is in recognition of his campaign against the 1994 genocide.
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