The deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen Paul Lokech is dead. Lockech is said to have died of a blood clot at about 10.15 am on a Saturday morning.
Here are some things you probably didn’t know
1. Paul Lokech has been a senior military officer at the rank of Major General, in the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF).
2. His military career includes service as the Commander of the Uganda contingent to Somalia, as part of the AMISOM peace-keeping force. The first tour was between 2011 and 2012.
3. His second Somalia rotation was from 2017 until 2018. During his first tour, Lokech commanded Battle Groups Eight and Nine, responsible for ejecting Al-Shabaab militants from Mogadishu in 2011.
4. Before his second tour in Somalia, he was the Commanding Officer of the Second UPDF Division, based at Makenke Barracks, in Mbarara.
5. He was Commandant of Uganda Rapid Deployment Capability Centre (URDCC), in Jinja from December 2018 until July 2019.
6. He served as Chief of Staff of the UPDF Air Force, for a period of five months, from 11 July 2019, until 11 December 2019.
7. Lokech was appointed Deputy Inspector General of Police of the Uganda Police Force on 16 December 2020.
8. But before that, he had previously served as the Military Attaché at Uganda's Embassy to Russia, based in Moscow.
9. He had also served as part of Uganda's peace-keeping forces in South Sudan.
10. He was part of Operation Safe Haven (OSH), a UPDF operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo intended to neutralize the rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).
