{"id":59167,"date":"2022-10-04T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T14:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=59167"},"modified":"2022-10-04T17:27:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T14:27:51","slug":"details-museveni-promotes-son-muhoozi-kainerugaba-to-full-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/details-museveni-promotes-son-muhoozi-kainerugaba-to-full-general\/","title":{"rendered":"DETAILS: Museveni promotes son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba to full General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Yoweri Museveni, the Commander in Chief of the Uganda Peoples\u2019 Defence Forces (UPDF) has promoted his son, Lieutenant General Muhoozi Kainerugaba to General.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The development has been confirmed by the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs in a statement. Muhoozi, who has been dropped from his role as Commander of Land Forces will continue serving as senior presidential advisor for special operations, according to the statement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, the president has promoted Operation Shuuja leader, Major General Muhanga Kayanja to Lieutenant General and appointed him as the new Commander of Land Forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs and UPDF fraternity congratulate the General Officers upon their well-deserved promotions and appointments,\u201d the statement concludes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The promotions come after a tweet in which Muhoozi said that it would take him only two weeks to capture Kenya\u2019s capital, Nairobi. The tweet which went viral caused a storm on social media both in Uganda and Kenya.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several politicians and civilians took to social media to react to Muhoozi\u2019s tweet with some government leaders describing it as a joke. The Minister for Agriculture, Hon. Frank Tumwebaze on social media said Muhoozi\u2019s tweet was a light joke to both his Ugandan and Kenyan followers. The Opposition on the other hand condemned Muhoozi\u2019s timeline, arguing that a high-ranking military officer like him should not conduct himself the way he does.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDear KENYANS, you now understand what it means to live in Uganda under Gen. Museveni and his son, whom he gifted the highest military ranks and put him in charge of our land forces! Sadly, beneath the senseless tweets lies a monster who brutalises and tortures our people for fun,\u201d National Unity Platform (NUP) leader, Robert Kyagulanyi tweeted on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoweri Museveni, the Commander in Chief of the Uganda Peoples\u2019 Defence Forces (UPDF) has promoted his son, Lieutenant General Muhoozi Kainerugaba to General.\u00a0 The development has been confirmed by the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs in a statement. Muhoozi, who has been dropped from his role as Commander of Land Forces will continue serving as senior presidential advisor for special operations, according to the statement.\u00a0 Additionally, the president has promoted Operation Shuuja leader, Major General Muhanga Kayanja to Lieutenant General and appointed him as the new Commander of Land Forces. \u201cThe Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs and UPDF fraternity congratulate the General Officers upon their well-deserved promotions and appointments,\u201d the statement concludes.\u00a0 The promotions come after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":59168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[114,756,103],"class_list":["post-59167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kaguta-museveni","tag-muhoozi-kainerugaba","tag-updf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}