ARUA – The Late Rtd Maj. Gen. Hussein Adda has laid to rest at a Muslim Cemetery in Arua City.
Gen. Adda, 83 a long-serving officer, died last Thursday in Kampala. He served the army for 55 years before his retirement in June 2018.
Until his retirement in June 2018, he was the Camp Commandant of Bombo Army Barracks.
Major General Ada was among the 11 longest-serving UPDF generals the army retired in 2018, the first retirement function where the UPDF retired that number of generals at the same time.
A dedicated officer, he rose through the Army ranks from Idi Amin’s regime before joining the NRA fighters.
Until his death, Gen Adda , who hails from Obongi District, has been among the counted four surviving generals from the West Nile region.
Others are the second deputy Prime Minister, General Moses Ali, Maj Gen.Michael Ondoga, former Head of UPDF contingent to Somalia, now the operation Wealth Creation coordinator for West Nile, and Maj. Gen. Dick Olum, who now serves as the head of the South Sudan Stabilisation mechanism.
Gen. Adda joined the army in 1963, a year after Independence and served through the Obote, Idi Amin and Museveni regimes until he retired from the UPDF in June 2018.