The soldier, who has already been fired, is the son of the country’s president and is known for writing drunkenly on social networks.
The head of the Ugandan army has assured that his troops will arrive in Nairobi within a few weeks. Then you corrected your statement. No, they do it in just seven days. Finally, he deleted these tweets. Some critics of Muhoozi Kainerugaba blame him for the bad habit of writing drunk on social networks. This practice and the threat of invading the neighboring country could ruin his military career. He’s already been fired. But the military daredevil is the son of President Yoweri Museveni. Kainerugaba, 48, has just been promoted to general.
The impunity is clear. He has not been blamed for expressing such a frivolous opinion, which could cause an international crisis. Moreover, the official’s statements went further, taunting the artificial borders, the result of colonialism, and even advocating the creation of the East African Federation, a new state that would include Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The Kampala government has been quick to point out that its official communication is not via Twitter.
Diplomatic relations between Uganda and Kenya are secure. It wasn’t always like that. The two countries had a near confrontation in the 1980s, when they supported guerrillas who opposed neighboring regimes. Currently, trade is crucial for both economies. Landlocked Uganda relies on the Kenyan port of Mombasa to conduct its commercial flow and the government of Nairobi is including Ugandan territory in its LAPSSET programme, an ambitious communications network through which it aims to provide Ethiopia and Sudan with privileged southern routes to the Indian Ocean.
There has been no official response to Kainerugaba’s ’boutade’. Kenya’s biggest concern is not an unlikely military invasion, but a health invasion. Uganda is dealing with a particularly virulent Ebola outbreak, and travelers crossing the border or traveling by plane have their temperatures taken.
Justice is in any case the major victim in both republics. They are two staunch allies of the United States in a region as unstable as the Horn of Africa, and their political stability, sanctioned by the West, sacrifices other demands. The judiciary is proving ineffective in resolving the serious bills pending on both shores of Lake Victoria. President William Ruto, who has just taken office in Nairobi, is dragging through a long succession of unresolved criminal proceedings, including an International Criminal Court proceeding for the post-election incidents of 2007.
In Uganda, the situation is even worse. Museveni has been in power for almost 36 years and the last elections were held in a climate of violent intimidation and numerous fatalities. His son’s profile matches that of the dolphins of the dictatorships, individuals who are aware of the lack of limitations. The so-called ‘Muhoozi project’, an alleged operation by his father to make him the successor, capitalizes on this intention and is even adopted by his supporters. The biggest rival is at home and that is his brother-in-law Odrek Rwabwogo, a successful businessman, who also shares political desires.
The dashing tweeter apparently lacks a curriculum to match its ambitious ambitions. No title is known to the intended heir. His career is linked to his status as commander of the Special Forces Command (SFC), a force that intervened in South Sudan when the civil war raged, and in Congo, where it attacked the bases of the Lord’s Resistance Army and the ADF. . , the Ugandan Islamist guerrillas.
But this elite body is also being questioned for its alleged links to murders and disappearances in Uganda and Museveni’s son, as its head, is included in a complaint to the International Criminal Court. The possibility that he will be prosecuted seems slim. The SFC supplied the African Union blue helmets and was one of the guarantors of stability in Somalia.
The irony of Kainerugaba does not imply the same ability to accept criticism on the Internet. The novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, also on Twitter, mocked his obesity and the military training he claims to have received. The author was arrested and tortured. After his release, he fled to Germany, where he applied for asylum in February.
Before announcing his intention to invade Kenya, the army chief threatened an even more complex operation. Muhoozi declared his intention to occupy Rome. And it is that in one of his frantic tweets he assured that he wanted to marry Giorgia Meloni and pay a hundred cows as a dowry and, in case he was rejected, would storm the Eternal City. In his latest contributions on the Internet, he assures that he is going to enjoy a vacation and asks for suggestions for possible destinations. He also wonders how he will get transalpine customs clearance to import a hundred cattle.
Source: La Verdad
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