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MP Nsereko reveals top reason why Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba doesn’t qualify to stand for Uganda President

Mubiru Ivan by Mubiru Ivan
5 years ago
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MP Nsereko and Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba

MP Nsereko and Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba

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Kampala Central Member of Parliament Muhammad Nsereko has claimed that First Son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba is not eligible to be Uganda’s President.

Appearing on NBS TV’s Morning breeze show recently, Nsereko said Muhoozi who is also a Senior Presidential Advisor on Special Operations is not a Ugandan citizen by birth, according to President Yoweri Museveni’s ‘sowing the Mustard Seed’ and that automatically disqualifies him to stand for the highest office on land.

“…Therefore Gen Muhoozi is not eligible to stand for the Presidency of Uganda according to the constitution. I cannot waste time discussing him as a serious candidate to be President of Uganda. The answer is no! He is a citizen by birth in Tanzania. You can read about his history  and the constitution clearly disqualifies any person who is not a citizen by birth to run for Presidency of this country. Therefore Muhoozi cannot be President of Uganda,” Nsereko said.

For years now, proponents of what came to be known as the ‘Muhoozi Project’ in Uganda have been arguing  that Gen Muhoozi has been fast-tracked through the army hierarchy, as a way of grooming him to control the armed forces and eventually take over as head of state.

In February last year, President Museveni who is also the Commander in Chief of Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF)  promoted Muhoozi to the rank of Lieutenant General, the second highest army rank an officer can obtain in the Ugandan army.

In 2013, the then coordinator of intelligence agencies in Uganda, General David Tinyenfunza alias Sejusa alleged that individuals opposed to the alleged ‘Muhoozi Project’ were being targeted for assassination.

Sejusa, in a letter that was leaked to and published by private media outlets, Daily Monitor and Red Pepper, alleged that president Yoweri Museveni and his closest family members were plotting to install Muhoozi as President.

Gen Muhoozi has on several occasions distanced himself from reports of the succession plot, saying he is too busy with military work to nurse political ambitions.

‘‘I don’t have the ambition to be President. I am very happy being in the military and that is where I intend to stay for some time,” Muhoozi said following his promotion to Major General in 2016.

‘‘It [Muhoozi Project] doesn’t exist, non-existent – that is a red herring. You have never heard of a message where I promote myself, it is always from the promotions board. That is the process in the military.”

In an interview with Al-Jazeera in 2013, President Museveni also dismissed suggestions that he was grooming his son to take over from him.

“That man (Muhoozi Kainerugaba) is an army officer. He is not interested in politics in Uganda,” Museveni told the interviewer.

Muhoozi’s alleged presidency vs Constitution

According to article 102 (a) of the 1995 Uganda Constitution, for any person to qualify to stand as President he/ she must be a citizen of Uganda by birth.

It states, “A person is not qualified for election as President unless that person is—(a) a citizen of Uganda by birth.

On the other hand, Gen Muhoozi was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

First lady Janet Museveni in her book, My Life’s Journey writes that on April 24, 1974 her labour pains started in the morning and a kind Scandinavian woman, who lived in the apartment building in Dar es Salaam, offered to drive her to the hospital. Muhoozi was born at 6am on April 24, 1974;

“He weighed nine pounds. He was a beautiful brown baby with a thick mass of hair on his head. He had dark marks that looked like sideburns on his cheeks, a trait that Museveni used to call the Museveni mark, because his children were born with it.”

Janet remembers that when Museveni walked into the room that morning and found the newly-born baby lying peacefully in his cot, “his face could not contain the smile that spread across [it].”

In his book Sowing the Mustard Seed, Museveni writes that Muhoozi was born during hard times.

“We were so short of funds that our electricity had been cut off…  In fact, we were not able to have it restored until Muhoozi was three months old. You should have seen his jumps and laughs when the lights first came on!”


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