The late Gen. Elly Tumwine will be laid to rest today at his ancestral home in Mukuru village, Rwebikoma Kazo district.<\/p>\n
Tumwine died on Thursday last week in\u00a0Nairobi.<\/p>\n
On Monday his body was taken to Kololo independence grounds where a requiem service was held in honor.<\/p>\n
The service was officiated by president Museveni who eulogized Gen Tumwine as God-given in advancing the liberation war including the war\u2019s first bullet which he says was released out of fear in a less than successful February 16th,<\/sup>\u00a01981 attack on Kabamba barracks to get guns from the government armory.<\/p>\n After mass Gen Tumwine\u2019s body was airlifted to his home in Kazo in an army chopper.<\/p>\n He will be buried this afternoon with a funeral service expected to start at 10 am.<\/p>\n At his home in Mukuru, security has been tightened.<\/p>\n Mourners are subjected to four checkpoints manned by the UPDF and police upon arrival.<\/p>\n They are also asked to follow standard operating procedures, especially wearing a mask as a precautionary measure against covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The late Gen. Elly Tumwine will be laid to rest today at his ancestral home in Mukuru village, Rwebikoma Kazo district. Tumwine died on Thursday last week in\u00a0Nairobi. On Monday his body was taken to Kololo independence grounds where a requiem service was held in honor. The service was officiated by president Museveni who eulogized Gen Tumwine as God-given in advancing the liberation war including the war\u2019s first bullet which he says was released out of fear in a less than successful February 16th,\u00a01981 attack on Kabamba barracks to get guns from the government armory. After mass Gen Tumwine\u2019s body was airlifted to his home in Kazo in an army chopper. He will be buried this afternoon with a funeral […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":57872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}