The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) leader Maj Gen (Rtd) Gregory Mugisha Muntu has said President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is taking a slippery road by allowing his son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba to indulge himself in politics without first retiring him from the national army.
The former UPDF Chief of Defence Forces made his caution while appearing on NBS TV on Monday. Gen Muntu said although Gen Muhoozi has a right as a citizen of Uganda to run for any political office in the country he must first resign from the army.
“Gen Muhoozi has his own right as a Ugandan citizen to exercise that right as a Ugandan and run for any political office. The only problem I see if he is really interested in running as a President of the country, Gen Museveni who should be more experienced in these matters, should have first released him from the army because the moment you let Gen Muhoozi who is in uniform, a serving officer, trying to project him for politics, you are literally trying to drag in the whole national security apparatus, something which has its own problems,” Gen Muntu said.
The former presidential candidate warned that Gen. Museveni needs to be very careful because the road he has chosen is very dangerous for him and Uganda as a country. He added that the introduction of the army into the country’s politics is intended to introduce fear within the masses and the opposition.
“This regime survives on fear and renting political space by corruption and bribery. How do you think these people got lost? All of us were there, we took power in 1986, people had hope…we had thought that at that point there would be a totally new direction, but they amended the constitution, first time, the second time, now there are here fidgeting trying to manage a transition.”
Gen Muntu’s warning comes at a time when the First Son has just celebrated his 48th birthday which left many questions in the eyes of critics given the attention it was given entirely.
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