President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has fired his son, Lt. General Muhoozi Kainerugaba as commander of the country’s land forces for threatening to seize neighboring Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
Kainerugaba had tweeted on his Twitter handle @mkainerugaba on Monday that his army could seize Nairobi in a very short time.
“It wouldn’t take us, my army and me, 2 weeks to capture Nairobi,” his tweet reads.
However, the Ugandan government has distanced itself from Kainerugaba’s tweets.
The Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, has issued a statement stressing that the government and people of Uganda treasure the country’s strong bilateral relations with Kenya based on the two nations’ “shared history, common values, mutual respect, trust and the desire to build a unified East African Community.”
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has noted the debate on social media in respect to the relationship between Uganda and Kenya. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to clarify that the government of the Republic of Uganda does not conduct its foreign policy and other official business through social media,” it added.
Kainerugaba has been dubbed “the tweeting general” of Uganda and is reported to have tweeted controversial posts in the past.
In one of such tweets, Kainerugaba said all Africans support Russia in its war with Ukraine, while in another post, he said he was offering 100 long-horned cattle apparently as a bride price for Italy’s incoming female Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
