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April 20, 2021 Newly elected NRM MPs at Kyankwanzi
The UPDF Act under section 164 prohibits unauthorised sale or wearing of military uniforms with a penalty of seven years imprisonment on conviction by a court.
Exceptions are given to persons with authority from the force, among others. The media’s coverage of the ongoing NRM retreat for its newly-elected members of parliament at the National Leadership Institute Kyankwanzi showed a photo of Honourable Jacob Oulanyah in a full military uniform. It was further reported that initially MPs could not recognise Oulanyah since he was clad in full military fatigue.
It must be remembered that at the ‘height’ of the People Power movement, the government went ahead and gazetted certain uniforms and other wears, including the red beret, as an official military attire while promising jail sentences for civilians caught wearing the same without authority from the UPDF (there is already a court challenge).
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