1. Major General Francis Okello replaced Major General Nathan Mugisha as commander of AMISOM on 7 July 2009 .
2. On July 7 , 2009 , General Major Nathan Mugisha was replaced as Commander of AMISOM by the general major Francis Okello .

Select your answer from the options. Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
pick from the following. [i] no; [ii] yes;...I think the answer is
[ii]