Brigadier General Robert Freeman Mugabe is a Ugandan military officer in the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF).
[2] Over the course of the past 30 years, Mugabe has served in several leadership positions in the UPDF and UPDF Air Force including as Air Defence Regiment Commander, Division Training Operations Officer and Division Administrative Officer among others.
[2] He was promoted from Colonel to Brigadier in April 2021 and has served as the adjutant general at the Bombo barracks since 2020.
[4] Mugabe took over his new appointment on 1 August 2022, in the presence of General Wilson Mbasu Mbadi, the UPDF Chief of Defense Forces.
[6] In June 2024, he was appointed to a third consecutive term as the chairman of the GCM and was sworn into office by the Judge Advocate Colonel Richard Tukachungurwa.