Security Minister Gen Elly Tumwine has rubbished social media reports that he breathed his last on Sunday morning.

“Dear fellow Ugandans, I hope you are doing well. Please disregard the Fake News circulating on Social Media announcing my death,” he posted on his Twitter Account.

Several reports on Sunday morning purported that the bushwar hero had died while others indicated that he was critically ill and under assisted breathing in Intensive Care.

But he further trashed the reports saying he is all well and not hospitalized.

“I am neither hospitalized nor ill. Have a blessed Sunday,” he added.

Former UPDF spokesperson Lt Col Paddy Ankunda further dismissed the rumours in a tweet fired on Sunday morning.

He described the reports of Gen Tumwine’s demise as fake.

“Fake news will kill you people instead. Hon Gen Elly Tumwine is neither sick nor hospitalized,” he posted.