MBABANE: Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has promoted his son as Headof the Army raising concerns that he is grooming his eldest child for the Presidency, Aljazeera reported on Friday.
The Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs announced late on Thursday that General Muhoozi Kainerugaba had been appointed the chief of defence forces, capping his rapid ascent through the Ugandan army ranks since the late 1990s.
The son of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, Major General Muhoozi Kainerugaba (L) and his wife Charlotte Kutesa Kainerugaba (R) attend a ceremony in which Kainerugaba is promoted from Brigadier to Major General at the country's military headquarters in Kampala on May 25, 2016. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, left, and his wife, Charlotte Kutesa Kainerugaba, attend a ceremony in which he is promoted from brigadier to general at the military headquarters in Kampala, Uganda, on May 25, 2016 [Peter Busomoke/AFP]