President Yoweri Museveni has come out and apologized to Ugandans, Kenyans, and all East Africans over the errant tweets of First son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
Muhoozi who was on Tuesday promoted to a full General and also relieved of his duties as Lands Army Commander has lately been in a verbal fight with Kenyans through Twitter.
In some of his tweets, the First Son sounded threatening the neighbors that “his” army was too powerful to capture their capital Nairobi in the shortest possible time if provoked.
This has drawn the President’s attention noting, “I ask our Kenyan brothers and sisters to forgive us for tweets sent by General Muhoozi, former Commander of Land Forces here, regarding the election matters in that great country. It is not correct for Public officers, be the civilian or military, to comment or interfere in any way, in the internal affairs of brother countries.”
Museveni, in a statement he issued on Wednesday says that the only available legitimate forum is the Peer Review Mechanism of the African Union or confidential interactions among Uganda or EAC and AU fora –not public comments since his son “is a passionate Pan-Africanist.”
He, however, says that despite the mistake, he promoted him to a full General because of his positive contributions.
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Full statement: https://www.yowerikmuseveni.com/statement-gen-muhoozi-kainerugabas-tweets-about-kenya
Museveni joins the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which on Tuesday came out disassociate itself from the social media battle.
“The Ministry wishes to emphasize that the Government and the people of the Republic of Uganda treasure the existing strong bilateral relations between the people and the Government of the Republic of Kenya based on our shared history, common values, mutual respect, trust and the desire to build a unified East African Community. To this end, the Government of the Republic of Uganda wishes to reiterate its commitment to good neighbourliness, peaceful co-existence and cooperation.”
