Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s mercurial son Muhoozi Kainerugaba has declared on Saturday that his country would send troops to defend Kenya’s former president Uhuru Kenyatta after his farm was invaded by goons last week.
Taking to his Twitter account, Muhoozi vowed to beat up hooligans to pulp if they try again to stage another attack.
“My big brother’s farm was attacked by hooligans the other day. We will send UPDF to protect him. We will beat those hooligans to pulp!” Kainerugaba said on Twitter.
This come hours after the controversial General also declared support for Russia’s Putin saying his country would send troops to defend Moscow if it came under threat.
“Call me a ‘Putinist’ if you will, but we, Uganda shall send soldiers to defend Moscow if it’s ever threatened by the Imperialists!” Kainerugaba said.
“The West is wasting its time with its useless pro-Ukraine propaganda,” added the outspoken general, a fervent supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kainerugaba, who is notorious for his often erratic Twitter outbursts on all manner of issues, earlier this month announced that he plans to run for president in 2026 elections.
He also announced Thursday the creation of a television and radio station under his MK brand, headed by a former special forces spokesman, and said one of the first places it would visit would be Russia.
As a serving military officer, Kainerugaba is banned under Uganda’s constitution from making unauthorised statements about sovereign states or foreign policy.
Uganda has abstained during UN votes on the conflict, including one last month marking the one-anniversary of the war that called for Moscow to immediately and unconditionally withdraw its troops.
Museveni has also in the past defended his country’s ties with the Kremlin.
“How can we be against somebody who has never harmed us,” he said during a tour of Africa by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in July last year to drum up support for Moscow over the war.
