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Things you should know about President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni 4 children

By Frank

Posted on October 25, 2020

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is currently working round the clock to ensure that he defeats his political rival Bobi Wine – Museveni has 4 children and some of them have played prominent roles in his political career.

The Uganda president, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni , is currently working round the clock to ensure that he defeats his political rival Bobi Wine and get re-elected into the State House as voting begins in early 2021.

Muhoozi Kainerugaba

Muhoozi Kainerugaba (born 24 April 1974 is a Ugandan military officer. He is a Lieutenant General in the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) and was the commander of the Special Forces Group, which contains the unit known as Presidential Guard Brigade responsible for providing security to the President of Uganda and to Uganda’s constitutional monarchs, from 2008 to 2017. The Special Forces Group is also responsible for providing security at Uganda’s oil installations. He is the son of President Yoweri Museveni, Commander in Chief of the UPDF and president of Uganda. Muhoozi has served as Senior Presidential Adviser for Special Operations since 2017.

Upon his return to Uganda from Sandhurst in 2000, Kainerugaba was assigned to the Presidential Protection Unit as a second lieutenant. In 2001, he was promoted to the rank of major in the UPDF. As a major, he became a brigade commander in the Presidential Guard Brigade. Following his graduation from Fort Leavenworth in 2008, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and appointed Commander of the Special Forces Group in the Uganda People’s Defence Force. On 16 May 2016 he was promoted to the rank of major general by President Museveni.

Museveni moved Muhoozi to the post of Senior Presidential Adviser for Special Operations on 10 January 2017. The move was generally viewed in light of the widespread belief that Museveni was preparing his son to eventually succeed him as president. Observers suggested that, by appointing Muhoozi as a presidential adviser, Museveni sought to give his son some political experience.

In February 2019, he was promoted from the rank of Major General to Lieutenant General, in a military promotions exercise that involved more than 2,000 UPDF men and women.

Natasha Museveni Karugire