First Son Muhoozi Kainerugaba Announces His Retirement From The Army.

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First Son Muhoozi Kainerugaba Announces His Retirement From The Army.

First Son Muhoozi Kainerugaba

By Uganda Online Media

Kampala: The First Son who also doubles as the commander of Land Forces of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba has announced his retirement from the army.

Gen Muhoozi announced his retirement on his Twitter profile this afternoon.

“After 28 years of service in my glorious military, the greatest military in the world, I am happy to announce my retirement,” he tweeted.

“Me and my soldiers have achieved so much! I have only love and respect for all those great men and women that achieve greatness for Uganda every day,” the first son added.

Gen Muhoozi was born on 24 April 1974 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to Museveni who has been President since 1986.
As a child, Gen Muhoozi attended schools in Tanzania, Kenya, and Sweden when his father became President of Uganda, he returned to attend schools including Kampala Parents School Kings College Buddo and St. Mary’s College Kisubi

He started military training in 1994 after he left high school and later attended the University of Nottingham from 1996 till 1998.

Muhoozi formally joined the UPDF in 1999 before being admitted at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst where he graduated in 2000.

He also joined the Egyptian Military Academy for a company and battalion command course.

Muhoozi also attended the Kalama Armoured Warfare Training School, in Kabamba, Mubende District, and in 2007 he joined the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and graduated in 2008.

Muhoozi Kainerugaba was promoted to the rank of Major General in May 2016 shortly after the presidential elections.

In 2019, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General which meant that in a space of 20 years, Muhoozi has risen from the rank of sergeant to Lt General, an unprecedented feat in Uganda’s military history.

Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has on several occasions been rumored to eying the presidential seat to replace his father but he has never publically acknowledged it,

In 2016, speaking shortly after promotion to the rank of Major General, Muhoozi Kainerugaba denied having an interest in the Big seat and dismissed the alleged Muhoozi project,

“I am very happy in the military and in case I wanted to join politics, I know the procedures to go through. As you heard, I don’t have the ambition to be president. I am very happy being in the military and that is where I intend to stay for some time,” he told journalists.

However, developments in the past few years have suggested otherwise, with analysts indicating that the message is clear that Lt Gen Muhoozi is eyeing the topmost seat in the country.

By announcing the retirement, many say the ambitions have taken shape but we wait to see his next course of action,

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