Who is Assistant Inspector General of Police Mugenyi ?
AIGP Asuman Mugenyi
Kampala Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP), Asuman Mugenyi, who is heading an operation against people loyal to Rwenzururu Kingdom Omusinga Wesley Mumbere, returns to Kasese where he first fought a rebel group led by Jamil Mukulu 24 years ago.
Mr Mugenyi, the director of police operations, was sent to Kasese District after 14 police officers were killed and four others injured by people suspected to have links with the Omusinga Mumbere last Thursday.
Mr Mugenyi’s police career has all been about fighting armed groups from Rwenzori sub-region to Karamoja, Sebei and Masaka. It is on the battlefield that he had attained nearly all his ranks.
Born at Kabwohe Township in Sheema District, which was curved out of Bushenyi District, Mr Mugenyi joined police in 1988 after graduating from Makerere University.
Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police Mugenyi was first deployed to the Immigration Department, where he never worked.
In 1989, he was deployed in Special Branch, which was then the intelligence unit of the police, as an intelligence officer, but his superiors saw in him operational abilities.
They sent him to Kamuli Police Station as a commander. After performing well, in 1991, Mr Apollo Naris Byekwaso, the then Inspector General of Police, transferred him to Kabarole District as the police commander.
In 1992, when elements of Uganda Muslim Freedom Fighters led by Jamil Mukulu started operating in Rwenzori sub-region, Mr Mugenyi was sent there as a commander to deal with them. UMFF later rebranded as Allied Democratic Forces.
