Uganda, March 1 -- Several days after he launched a ground-breaking document shaking up the structure and posture of the national army, President Museveni has set his sights on the spectre of corruption which he said has crept back into the forces.

Reports of graft gaining ground inside the military will dampen the fanfare, which greeted the landmark Establishment Document 2021, that was made public at a ceremony held on February 18. In it, the commander-in-chief and the Defence Council affirmed that command and control of all the army's elements will now be under the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) -- a telling departure from the status quo.

Under the new structure, even the Special Forces Command (SFC), a formation from which the presid...