Patrick Kankiriho’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Ugandan general
Was Military personnel
From Uganda
Type Military
Gender male
Birth

1 January 1961, Kiruhura District, Western Region, Uganda

Death

8 April 2013, Nakasero Hospital, Nakasero, Kampala, Uganda
(aged 52 years)

Star sign Capricorn
Education
Uganda Senior Command and Staff College

Brigadier Patrick Kankiriho (1961–2013) was a military officer in Uganda. He was a senior commander in the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF). At the time of his death, he was the commander of the 2nd Army Division in Mbarara, Western Uganda. In 2008, he served as the commander of Operation Lightning Thunder, the military operation that dislodged the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels out of Garamba National Forest, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Background and education

He was born in Kiruhura District in 1961. Patrick Kankiriho attended Mbarara High School in the 1970s. In 1977, he left school to join the Uganda National Liberation Front guerillas who overthrew Idi Amin in 1979, with the assistance of the Tanzania People’s Defence Force (TPDF). In 2005, at the rank of lieutenant colonel, he attended the Uganda Senior Command and Staff College, at Kimaka, Jinja, Eastern Uganda, graduating in 2006.

Military career

In 1982, Kankiriho joined the guerrilla National Resistance Army (NRA), led by Yoweri Museveni. After the NRA captured power in 1986, he was among the junior army officers who were deployed in Northern Uganda to fight the Holy Spirit Movement, led by Alice Lakwena. In the 1990s, at the rank of captain, he fought against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels in Western Uganda.

At the rank of major, Patrick Kankiriho served as the commander of the UPDF 13th Battalion in Northern Uganda. In 2003, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and was appointed commandant of the UPDF 401 Infantry Brigade, based in Lira. After completing a one-year senior command course at the Uganda Senior Command and Staff College at Kimaka, he was promoted to the rank of colonel and was appointed commander of the UPDF 3rd Division based in Moroto. While there, he was heavily involved in the disarmament of the Karamojong people. In 2007, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier and in 2008 was deployed to Garamba in Democratic Republic of Congo where he commanded Operation Lightning Thunder, which dislodged Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army out of Uganda and DRC.
He was later assigned to the UPDF 2nd Division as the commanding officer.

Personal

Patrick Kankiriho was survived by his widow, Deborah Kankiriho, and four children.

You May Also Like

Ken Fisher’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

Ken Fisher Net Worth: Ken Fisher is an American investment analyst who has a net worth of $3.2 billion. He was born Kenneth Lawrence Fisher on November 29, 1950 in San Francisco, California. Ken Fisher has been the “Portfolio Strategy” columnist for Forbes for over 30 years. After his graduation from Humboldt State University, Fisher started working for his father, Philip, who was prominent money manager and author of the investment book Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits. In 1979, Ken established his own money-management company, Fisher Investments. He currently serves as its Chairman and CoChief Investment Officer. To this day and owns 95% of the company’s shares which manages more than $100 billion in assets for private and institutional clients. In 2007, Ken and Thomas Grüner launched “Grüner Fisher Investments”. Besides Forbes, Fisher writes to other financial and news magazines such as the Financial Times, USA Today and other leading news outlets around the world. He has written 11 books including four New York Times Bestsellers. He has also written numerous research papers on behavioral finance which have brought him many prestigious awards including Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award and the Tiburon CEO Summit award for Challenging Conventional Wisdom. In 2010, Fisher was listed as one of the top 30 most influential people in the investment advisory business by Investment Advisor Magazine. In 2012 Ken and his wife made a donation of $7.5 million to John Hopkins University to support a new infectious disease center. Fisher also owns several commercial properties in Washington State and Northern California, as well as 2,000 acres area of redwood timber in Mendocino, which he bought for $4 million.
Read More

Mary Schmidt Amons’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

Mary Schmidt Amons net worth: Mary Schmidt Amons is an American television personality who has a net worth of $400 thousand. Mary Schmidt Amons is the founder of Labels of Love and the co-founder of The District Sample Sale, which are two local charities in Washington D.C.. Mary was born in 1965. She is best known for being a cast member on Bravo TV’s Real Housewives of DC in 2010. Her grandfather was the 1950’s entertainer Arthur Godfrey. Mary is the oldest of seven children. She founded the non-profit organization Labels for Love in 2006. She co-founded District Sample Sale which raises funds for women’s and children’s organizations in Washington, DC. She was formerly married to Rich Amons and has five children. She is also an interior and fashion designer and designed handbags and accessories. She has served as the Executive Director of the Vincent T. Lombardi Foundation, Inc.
Read More