Ondoga trial: State summons Gen. Gutti

The General Court Martial has summoned Lt Gen Andrew Gutti to give evidence in the ongoing trial of former commander of the Ugandan peace keeping force in Mogadishu, Brig Michael Ondoga.

Gen. Gutti

Lt Gen Gutti, the current commandant of the UPDF Senior Staff and Command College Kimaka in Jinja District, was summoned on Thursday jointly with Lt Col Moses Mwesigwa to testify in the military court in Makindye, Kampala.

The two officers will appear in the court on February 12. The summons followed an application by the State prosecutor to call the duo to boost the evidence against the suspects.

Prosecution accuses Ondoga of failure to brief and for providing 1,000 troops instead of the required 1,500 for an operation from Afogoye to Baidoa in October 2012, resulting into loss of lives and military assets.He is also accused of having failed to issue formal operation orders to the commander battle group ten, Lt. Col. Edson Muhanguzi, to address complaints about food shortage and command and control his subordinates in 2012 and diversion of 15,000 liters of fuel meant for the Afogoye-Baidoa operation in 2013. Read more:http://www.theinsider.ug/brig-ondoga-trial-flops-again-at-makindye/