KAMPALA: Fresh from a meeting with Rwandan President Gen Paul Kagame, the Ugandan Army Commander in charge of the Land Forces Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has revealed that enemies are the ones fighting the historical unity between Uganda and Rwanda.
“I have been alive long enough to know that Uganda and Rwanda are one country! In exile in the 1980s, me and my family were also called ‘Rwandans’. Only enemies would fight our unity. Let us resolve these small problems quickly and move forward together as always,”Gen Muhoozi said in a third tweet for following his one day visit!
He did not name who these enemies are.
Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, arrived in Kigali yesterday for talks with Gen Kagame in what looks to be an official assignment by Ugandan President Gen Yoweri Museveni to fix the Rwanda-Uganda problem once and for all.
Gen Muhoozi, who is also Gen Museveni’s son and Advisor on Special Operations, arrived at Kigali International Airport aboard a Uganda Airlines chattered Bombardier plane CR J900.
Gen Muhoozi was received by the Commandant of Rwanda’s Republican Guard, Brig Gen Willy Rwagasana, the Spokesperson of the Rwanda Defence Forces and Kainerugaba’s schoolmate, Brig Gen Ronnie Rwivanga and Ugandan Embassy officials.
After a brief chat in the VIP lounge and at the Ugandan Embassy, Gen Muhoozi was chauffeured to Kacyiru to meet with Gen Kagame.
The visit comes at a time when Ugandan ground and air forces launched blazing attacks on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) camps in Eastern DRC late November, where uniforms and identity cards suspected to belong to the Rwandan army were recovered, a move that left Kigali thinking deeply about its own operations in the vast country.
It also comes at a time when the frosty relations between the two countries have not eased and the common border between them is still closed.