Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba is fully back on X (twitter).
He had taken a sabbatical most of 2023, after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni apologised to Kenya after his tweets that threatened to invade the neighbouring country and capture its capital in two weeks in 2022.
The tweet was a joke Kenyans did not take lightly as it indicated the Uganda army’s readiness to invade Nairobi. “It wouldn’t take us, my army and me, 2 weeks to capture Nairobi,” Muhoozi, then UPDF Commander Land forces, tweeted.
“I ask our Kenyan brothers and sisters to forgive us for tweets sent by General Muhoozi,” Museveni said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that public officers should not interfere in the affairs of other countries.
The President however added that, “I know for a fact that General Muhoozi is a passionate Pan-Africanist. However, the correct method for Pan-Africanists is confidential interactions or using the available forums.”
Muhoozi was then dropped from his role as Commander of the UPDF land forces, promoted and made an advisor, and only to return just over a year later, as CDF in March 2024.
He started social media engangement quietly on his return, but in the past month, is back to his old ways on X. Below are some of his latests tweets.
$100 billion is the minimum I demand from the USA. And they will pay every penny! Fast and in a hurry! On top of that they’ll invite me to visit the US Army…soon.
— Muhoozi Kainerugaba (@mkainerugaba) August 16, 2024
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