Hudson Mukasa is a Major General in the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF).
[3] Mukasa joined the National Resistance Army, the precursor to the Uganda People's Defence Forces, in 1983.
At that time the 5th Division was based in Lira, Lango sub-region, in Uganda's Northern Region.
The brigade was one of the mobile forces the UPDF established to fight the Lord's Resistance Army, along the Sudan-Uganda border.
[5] In 2008, while serving as he Commanding Officer of the 5th UPDF Division, based in Lira, Uganda, Brigadier Hudson Mukasa was implicated in the misappropriation of USh 256 million (approx.