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Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda’s President Yower Museveni, has announced his departure from X, where he has been posting controversial messages.
The 50-year-old general has increasingly involved himself in the political arena, breaching military protocols and reigniting debates about his ambitions to succeed his father, who has been in power since 1986.
He recently sparked anger with a tweet in which threatened to behead the country’s leading opposition figure, Bobi.
In his last post on Friday, Kainerugaba said “time has now to leave and concentrate” on his military duties but promised to “re-converge” with his one million in the future.
This is not the time Gen Kainerugaba has deactivated X.
In 2022, he quit the-blogging platform only to return days later.
Critics have taken a swipe at the general over the statements he made on social media, which touched on subjects considered taboo for a serving soldier.
In 2022, he made for discussing an invasion of neighboring Kenya, a that forced his father to step in and apologize.
Gen Kainerugaba’s recent post threatening to “cut off” the head of Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, drew widespread condemnation in the.
Although the general apologized about the post, which he described as a joke, Bobi Wine said he could not such threats lightly.
The Ugandan government downplayed the post, with a spokesperson describing Gen Kainerugaba’s social media statements as “casual” remarks that should not be interpreted as reflecting official policy.
Genainerugaba’s undiplomatic outburst on media has also angered other countries with his previous posts about siding with Russia in the invasion of Ukraine and saying that Uganda would be on the side of Tigray in the Ethiopian civil war.
Museveni has nevertheless defended his son as a “very good general” and the army said he enjoyed the constitutionally guaranteed individual right of expression.
In his farewell message to his X followers, the general said his decision to leave the platform was guided by his faith and a renewed focus on his military duties as a general in the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF).
“It is on the instructions and blessings of my Lord Jesus Christ that I leave this social media and dedicate myself to my assignment to bring peace and security to our region,” his statement stated.
“To all my dear followers, it has been a great whirlwind and rousing journey together on these streets for the last 10 years since 2014,” he added.
He urged his followers to continue supporting his father, whom he referred to as “the greatest general of the resistance”.
Gen Kainerugaba is seen as a possible successor to his long-serving father but Museveni has denied that he is grooming him for the presidency.
The general has been holding rallies, mobilizing support around the country, which has drawn criticism in some quarters.
He joined the army in 1999 and has had a meteoric rise. His ascent to power has been dubbed the “Muhoozi Project” by local media.
“I know you all love me, and that you will continue to follow me like the wind long after here,” he said in his signing off statement from X.
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