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President Yoweri Museveni has apologized to Kenyans over tweets posted by his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba that had repeatedly threatened to invade Uganda’s East African neighbor.
In a sequence of tweets on Monday and Tuesday, Kainerugaba posted provocative messages, together with proposing the unification of Kenya and Uganda.
“It wouldn’t take us, my military and me, 2 weeks to seize Nairobi,” Kainerugaba wrote, referring to Kenya’s capital.
“Union is a MUST! No honorable males can permit these synthetic, colonial borders anymore. If we our technology has males, then these borders should fall!.”
President Museveni apologized for his son’s feedback, saying it was mistaken for public officers to meddle within the affairs of different nations.
“I ask our Kenyan brothers and sisters to forgive us for tweets despatched by Basic Muhoozi, former Commander of Land Forces right here, concerning the election issues in that nice nation,” Museveni wrote in a press release launched Wednesday on his official web site.
His feedback drew offended reactions from Kenyans on social media and Kainerugaba, who’s broadly considered the de facto head of the navy and his father’s chosen successor, was on Tuesday eliminated as commander of Uganda’s land forces. It was unclear whether or not the change was made following his controversial tweets.
He was later promoted from lieutenant general to the rank of a full basic and can stay a senior presidential adviser for particular operations, a Ugandan Ministry of Defence assertion introduced.
Regardless of his apology, Museveni justified Kainerugaba’s promotion, saying his son had solely erred in his feedback and never in his service.
“Why, then, promote him to full Basic after these feedback? It is because this error is one facet the place he has acted negatively as a public officer,” the Ugandan chief stated.
“There are, nevertheless, many different optimistic contributions the Basic has made and may nonetheless make,” he added whereas describing Kainerugaba as “a passionate Pan-Africanist.”
Kainerugaba is outspoken on social media and has regularly traded barbs with opposition figures and weighed into politics, regardless of his navy position barring him from doing so.
Kainerugaba additionally requested his greater than 600,000 Twitter followers what number of cows must be supplied as a bride worth for Giorgia Meloni, the right-wing politician anticipated to be named Italy’s prime minister this month.
“I might give her 100 Nkore cows instantly! For being fearless and true!!,” he wrote.
Kainerugaba later stated the feedback have been made in jest. Whereas an aide to Francesco Lollobrigida, instructed reporters Kainerugaba’s provide was not a critical subject.
Ugandan analysts and opposition leaders have lengthy accused the 78-year-old Museveni of grooming his son to take over from him, however Museveni, who has been in energy for 36 years, has repeatedly denied doing so.
