Museveni's Son Says he needs only two weeks to capture Nairobi

I have always opined that nothing in politics just happens, everything is well, planned, well scripted, and well-directed to achieve a particular objective. This week many Kenyans read with awe and shock the tweets by General Muhoozi Kainerugaba the son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. In many of his tweets, the dictator's son perhaps revealed what he and his father must have discussed behind closed doors. The spoilt son expressed his desire to annex Kenya and said "it won't take me and my army two weeks to take over Nairobi". This sparked a Twitter war between him and Kenyans on Twitter(KOT) and also dragged in the rest of the Ugandans.




In what has surprised many, and in a surprise twist, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, the following day, promoted his son from Lt Gen to a full General despite the diplomatic row he had created the previous day. Now, it's always good to pay attention to unsaid words more than the loudly spoken or written ones. Ugandan foreign ministry issued a statement a day after the tweets by the dictator's son and in vague and lame words tried to disassociate themselves from the General's tweets, none the less it's the promotion of the General that has caught many people's eyes. Why would the president promote him a day after saying what he said? was it a coincidence or a planned fete? What is Museveni planning in his expansionist mind?




It will not be the first time Uganda is harboring such ideas. In the '70s the then Ugandan President, Idi Amin had mobilized his soldiers and was preparing to attack Kenya and annex the whole of western Kenya including Eldoret. Uganda then had a far much better and well-equipped army than Kenya. Idi Amin had heavily equipped his army with Russian weaponry and jet fighters and was far better prepared and well-armed than Kenya. Kenya frantically enlisted the help of the US and requested military aid and a supply of F18s that were much better than the Russian version Idi Amin had. Long story short, Idi Amin only backed down when Jomo Kenyatta threatened to choke all his country's supplies passing through the Mombasa port. That and the US military aid that was later granted by the US stopped the tyrant from attacking Kenya. Would the same threat stop Yoweri Museveni were he to attack Nairobi? Honestly, I doubt it because then Uganda had tried to attack Tanzania(their only other option in case Mombasa was closed for them) and their relationship was terrible, to say the least. The same cannot be said now, in fact, Uganda uses both ports of Kenya and Tanzania to import its goods and mostly prefers Tanzania's port, saying it's faster and cheaper and the road network between the two countries is good owing to the newly constructed road linking the two countries. So Museveni won't be held by the same dynamics that stopped Idi Amin from attacking Kenya. Still, there is one big difference now, Kenya's military has dramatically grown and expanded, and it's completely different from the one that would have faced Idi Amin's attack. It is well equipped, well trained, and very disciplined compared to its Ugandan counterparts.

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So were Uganda to attack Kenya in their silly expansionist agenda, then they will be annihilated by the Kenyan military. I believe what General Muhoozi tweeted wasn't just blubber from a drunken General as many are dismissing it but a somewhat testing of the waters to see how Kenyan authorities and the public would react to this. I believe the timing is also perfect owing to the deep divisions existing in the Kenyan public due to the just concluded general elections that sharply divided Kenyans. So Museveni and his son reckon that this would be a perfect time to strike and they are not mistaken. I have seen many Kenyans come out to rebuke General Muhoozi, but I have also seen others who have entertained and welcomed the idea. Some Kenyans tend to think that it would be better to b annexed by Uganda than be ruled by a regime they don't like. However, by and large, many Kenyans were united in the condemnation of the reckless remarks from Museveni's son. But the big question that still lingers on, and perhaps one that we might never get an answer to is, were these just words from a drunken General? or was it a sneak preview of President Museveni's mind and plans? Whom should we believe, the Foreign Ministry of Uganda, or the President's son, who was promoted by his father a day after sending those tweets? Of importance to note is that the General has since deleted his posts without a word of apology.