Muhoozi promotes CID Director Magambo to Acting Lt Col
The promotion lifts Tom Magambo, who was appointed to lead the police's Criminal Investigations Directorate in 2022, into an army rank.
Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Chief of Defence Forces, has elevated Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) Director AIGP Maj Tom Magambo to acting lieutenant colonel. Col Chris Magezi, acting director of Defence Public Information at the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs, made the announcement.
Before leading CID, Magambo spent two decades at the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) from 2002, reaching chief intelligence officer and director of analysis. He later coordinated the Eastern Africa Fusion and Liaison Unit, which links Uganda with Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Djibouti, Burundi and Rwanda.
President Yoweri Museveni named him CID director on January 25, 2022, succeeding AIGP Grace Akullo, who had held the post for nearly a decade. Magambo had never been a police officer before that appointment, and Museveni regularised him as an AIGP in April 2022.
Why it mattersMagambo now holds both a police command and an army rank, a combination that ties the country's top detective office to the military leadership.