Muhoozi’s ‘war’ isn’t about Kenya

General Muhoozi Kainerugaba on the day of his promotion to the rank of Maj-General at Bombo Military Barracks in Uganda. File | Nation Media Group

Kenyans, especially on social media, were in war mood Monday and early Tuesday after Uganda President Yoweri Museveni’s son, Lieutenant General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, tweeted, “It wouldn’t take us, my army and me, 2 weeks to capture Nairobi.”

Muhoozi, also Commander of the Land Forces, additionally lamented that former Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta, with whom he was close, had left office after his second term expired. He said Uhuru should have stood for a third term and was sure he would have won.