KAMPALA: The Commander Land Forces (CLF), Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has revealed that he has faced a lot of resistance in his military career from his superiors in the army.
Lt Gen Kainerugaba, who is also the first son, adds that people who should have been supporting him were fighting him. “In my military career I have faced the most resistance from some of my elders. People who should have been supporting me, were fighting me all the time,” he said.
His revelations, which he made on Twitter on Sunday, December 19, 2021, point to the long perceived internal battle within the military that Lt Gen Kainerugaba is being groomed by his father, President Museveni, to succeed him.
In 2013, the Daily Monitor newspaper was closed for publishing a letter authored by Gen. David Sejusa, in which the then Coordinator of Intelligence Agencies, claimed that those to be framed and eliminated for their perceived opposition to the ‘Muhoozi Project’ are Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, Chief of Defence Forces Aronda Nyakairima (now deceased) and himself.
Lt Gen Kainerugaba’s rise in the military ranks has been fast-tracked, with many saying at his age of 47, he could not have risen to his current rank.
Nevertheless, in his Sunday tweet, the First Son insisted that that the practice of infighting is primitive.
“I can only describe that as backward culture. I promise to always support the young people of Uganda,” he said.