Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has promoted his boy equally his senior adviser, officials said on Tuesday, a motility analysts said was purpose of a excogitation to groom him to accept over the laissez passer on off job.
The president’s son, Major General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, was moved from his seat at the caput of the army’s particular forces, the military machine said, inwards what it called a normal alter inwards command.
But political rivals necessitate maintain regularly defendant the 72-year-old president of handing powerful positions to members of his identify unit of measurement as well as adopting an increasingly autocratic fashion – charges his supporters dismiss.
His brother, Salim Saleh, is roughly other presidential adviser as well as his wife, Janet Museveni, is government minister of education.
“Muhoozi … is going to play a pregnant role inwards a post-Museveni Uganda, there’s no dubiety close it,” said political commentator as well as rights activist Nicholas Opiyo.
“He is only giving the man child a paw inwards experiencing how authorities industrial plant on the side of politics.”
Human rights lawyer as well as political commentator Andrew Karamagi described the engagement equally a “real clear motility to convey the homo closer to succession”.
Kainerugaba has risen chop-chop through the ranks since he joined the regular army inwards 1998. He jumped ii positions from sec Lieutenant to Major inwards 2001.
Military spokesman Paddy Ankunda said Kainerugaba had been appointed Senior Presidential Adviser for Special Operations. Asked whether it was a motility to boost Kainerugaba’s political credentials, he told Reuters: “No, this is only a normal alter inwards command.”
The Chief of Defence Forces, General Katumba Wamala, was named junior government minister for industrial plant as well as carry as well as replaced yesteryear David Muhoozi inwards the change, Ankunda added.
Museveni, i of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, won a novel five-year term inwards elections end twelvemonth that the opposition said were rigged. He denies the charge.
