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Gen Muhoozi’s tweets leave people guessing: “What is he communicating?”

Gen Muhoozi’s tweets leave people guessing: “What is he communicating?”

By Tuesday, October 15, 2019 Comment Edit

Over the last couple of days, Lt Gen Kainerugaba Muhoozi, the first son and senior presidential advisor for Special Operations has outed a number of tweets that have raised more questions than they have answered.

Inevitably, the tweets have set off a social media storm with some Ugandans asking: Why is the general ranting?

On October 14, Muhoozi tweeted that those planning to mess up with Uganda “will get a very bad day…”

Attached to the tweet where photographs of UPDF soldiers in a practice session.

 

This particular tweet set off a firestorm as people tried to read between the lines.

A number of online publications (including this one) carried a story about the tweet but one portal went a notch higher and tried to decipher the “inside story” behind its message.

In a highly speculative story, the online portal suggested that Muhoozi’s tweet was in response to military activities of a neighbouring activities.

The story insinuated that Muhoozi was trying to alert the neighbouring country that “Uganda is watching and ready.”

A day later on October 15, the first son tweeted that his father Yoweri Museveni is among the top five Africans ever made (sic). “All of us in the UPDF love him so much,” he wrote placing him alongside Julius Nyerere, the founding father of Tanzania and Nelson Mandela, the icon of the anti-apartheid struggle.

The last time Muhoozi showered praises on his father, it turned out that he had been involved in an altercation with a reveller at a city hangout.

It was, some said, his way of trying to buy forgiveness from his father.

Since he joined tweeter in August 2014, Muhoozi has outed 4334 tweets. This means that one average, he has tweeted 866 times every year over the last five years.

This translates into at least two tweets a day.

An analysis of his previous tweets showed that between 2014 and 2017, he largely retweeted content from other twitter handles, obscuring his actual views.

Yet recent activity going by his twitter account suggests that he is increasingly using his handle to speak out his mind an on matters that appear contentious.

The reason for change of tone in his tweets remains unclear.

What is clear though is that his tweets have got people talking and political pundits speculating.

For long there has been speculation that Gen Muhoozi is being groomed to take over from his father as president of the country.

In a number of media interviews, Muhoozi has dismissed this speculation pointing out crucially however that “it is not a crime to have presidential ambitions.”

Increasingly, from his tweets, Muhoozi has wrapped himself in the blanket of patriotism.

“Nobody can defeat Uganda…whoever dares will be crushed to dust,” he tweeted on October 9, days after Joshua Cheptegei had claimed gold in the 10,000 metres at the world championships and after Ugandans Ezekiel and Esther Muteesasira had emerged winners of the East Africa Has Got Talent competition.

 

Yet one may ask: What is the source of Muhoozi’s found wave of patriotism?

Why is he all of a sudden using terms like “crushing,”, “dare” etc in his tweets?

His admirers and critics on twitter have been quick have their say.

In relation to his October 14 tweet which dared those who want to mess with Uganda, a one Shafique Ssebunya responded: “This is a very good message. The enemies of Uganda should be worried.”

Many however roundly criticised the tweet saying it would set off unnecessary tensions. One argued that he seems to have been watching videos of Donald Trump, the US president, recently.

The more tempered one have urged for caution on the side of Gen Muhoozi.

“Each country on this planet is strong and blessed by God. Mutual respect and cooperation is needed. No country can be defeated without a just cause. No country should arbitrary or capriciously attack another for sure however strong it may seem to be, it would be defeated,” wrote one of his followers in response to the tweet on “crushing.”

While he will occasionally “love” messages that portray him in positive light, Muhoozi has largely avoided replying to messages of criticism on his handle.

This silence, some say, could be another way of communicating.

 

 

 

 

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