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Odrek Rwabwogo, son-in-law of President Yoweri Museveni, has appealed to Ugandans to hold Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba to personally account for his actions rather than demonising the entire First Family.
Rwabwogo is the husband of Gen Muhoozi’s sister, Patience and Chairperson of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development (PACEID).
Speaking Saturday on a talk show in Capital FM, Rwabwogo said Gen Muhoozi should be held to account for his actions, including human rights violations, and controversies as the UPDF’s Chief of Defence Forces (CDF).
Rwabwogo was speaking in light of Muhoozi’s recent social media posts about the arrest of NUP’s head of security, Eddy Mutwe.
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In the posts, Muhoozi shared a picture showing Mutwe’s head shaven and appearing to have been tortured.
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He claimed that Mutwe had been locked up in his basement and was being forced to learn Runyankole.
The posts were widely condemned by sections of the public, who accused the CDF of stoking tribal tensions
On the radio, Rwabwogo described this as one of the signs of the collapse of government institutions.
“It is important that you hold institutions accountable. I think that you, as Ugandans, can hold the Minister of Defence and the CDF accountable for any of the allegations,” he said.
“Gen Muhoozi has a mouth and he has an institution that he leads, and I think it is important that to keep the democracy of the country growing, we have to charge the institutions to deliver, or we hold their leaders accountable.”
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Family government meetings?
Rwabwogo also fended off accusations from fellow panellist Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda that he, as a member of the First Family, is involved in the process of key important government decisions and policy.
“I am now 55. I have spoken outwardly and forcefully about the values and principles of how you grow a country. I have never sat in a family meeting to make decisions about the country,” he said.
“This is a lie from the pit of hell. No family session determines Uganda’s fate. The country has a cabinet and institutions.”
Rwabwogo, as such, urged Ugandans to delink matters of national governance from the lives of the members of the First Family.
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Muhoozi - Rwabwogo clash
Rwabwogo and Gen Muhoozi are known not to be on the best of terms and have had a public falling out.
In August last year, Muhoozi described his brother-in-law as Uganda’s “biggest thief."
In response, Rwabwogo termed the first son's characterisation as “lies…aimed at diverting us from the important work we are doing.”
“I ask that you leave us out of this shallowness because we don’t have time to abandon what matters for our country to engage in that which seeks to destroy all of us as a country,” he stated.