10 Facts About Kaka Bagyenda

Feb Colonel Frank Kaka Bagyenda was born on 1 February 1952 and is a Ugandan retired military officer in the Uganda People's Defence Forces.

Kaka Bagyenda is the former Director General of the Internal Security Organisation, Uganda government's counter intelligence agency, responsible for providing national security intelligence to Uganda's policy makers.

Kaka Bagyenda was born in Ibanda District, in Uganda's Western Region, in February 1952.

Kaka Bagyenda attended local schools before he was admitted to Makerere University circa 1974.

In 1981, Kaka Bagyenda joined the National Resistance Army, a rebel guerrilla outfit, led by Yoweri Museveni, who waged the Ugandan Bush War, between 1981 and 1986.

Kaka Bagyenda carried out covert operations for the NRA and was instrumental in the capture of Masindi Army Barracks by the NRA on 20 February 1984.

Kaka Bagyenda served in the Ugandan military, rising to the rank of major, before he retired at that rank in 1993.

Kaka Bagyenda then served as head of the directorate of transport, and then as a member of the then Directorate of Military Intelligence, which today is the Chieftainancy of Military Intelligence.

Kaka Bagyenda served in Uganda's Northern Region, where commanded a brigade in the early 1990s.

Kaka Bagyenda remained in Uganda however, engaging in the trucking business in Western Uganda, and setting up Panoma Hotel in Kalangala, in the Ssese Islands.