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The decorated serviceman revealed at a meeting, how he was embarrassed by a Ugandan female immigration officer upon arrival in his country of birth.
The Immigration officer, he says, was unhappy about his demeanour and decided to detain him for three hours in the dead of the night.
“I was detained for three hours; Immigration detained me for three hours and confiscated my passport while returning to my home country,” Col Musisi recounted.
“They said I was too proud. A woman made me sit down, I tried to make phone calls but most people were asleep.”
He added, “Imagine coming off a plane and spending three hours in detention, would you come back to Uganda?”
Musisi has served in the US Army since the year 2000, having moved to the country in the early 1990s.
Until his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel last year, Assistant Product Manager at Joint Program Executive Office (JPEO), Armaments and Ammunition at Picatinny Arsenal, in New Jersey.
He also served overseas in Iraq in 2003-04 during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Back in Uganda, Musisi has been running a non-profit organization providing essential health services to the people on the Islands of Kalangala.
The Ugandan Parliament recognized him in 2014 for his clinic which handles over 20,000 HIV patients a year.
While stranded at the airport and failing to get help, Musisi says he decided to call back the Ugandan Embassy in Washington DC.
“I called the Deputy Ambassador, and she was very helpful; she talked to the officials and they handed back my passport and let me go.”
Musisi wondered how he could be treated in that manner, as a decorated serviceman.
“This is the country you are living in,” he said.
“If they can confiscate the passport of the Lt Col of the US Army for three hours, what else are they doing to ordinary people?” he wondered.