‘No one will ban me from anything’, Museveni’s son Muhoozi says on Twitter expulsion

The controversial army general who recently caused an online storm after sending tweets about a purported plan to invade Kenya went on the social media platform late Tuesday night to insist that he is an adult who cannot be banned from anything.

“I hear some journalist from Kenya asked my father to ban me from Twitter? Is that some kind of joke?? I am an adult and NO ONE will ban me from anything!” he said.

He was seemingly referring to the television interview his father gave KTN News which aired on Sunday, in which the long-serving president was asked about his son’s conduct online.

“Africa has a lot of problems and tweeting is not the most serious,” Museveni had said.

“If somebody is good in something, but makes a mistake in something else, how would you handle it?” posed the president, adding that his son is an otherwise-good army officer.

But the specific interview where Mr. Museveni discussed banning his son from Twitter was with a local Ugandan television station on Monday.

Museveni said his outspoken son would stay off Twitter only when it comes to affairs of state. He said Kainerugaba would still be able to take to social media as long as he restricts himself to comments about matters such as sport.

"He will leave Twitter. We have this discussion. Twitter is not a problem. The problem is what you are tweeting about," he said.

"Talking about other countries and partisan politics of Uganda is something he should not do and he will not do it," Museveni added.

While threatening to invade Kenya and seize Nairobi, General Kainerugaba on October 3 claimed the capture of Kenya’s capital would take no longer than two weeks.

This forced the Ugandan president to apologise to Kenyans in a long letter.

“... this mistake is one aspect where he has acted negatively as a  Public officer. There are, however, many other positive contributions the General has made and can still make.  This is a time-tested formula –discourage the negative and encourage the positive,” it read in part.

Kainerugaba, widely regarded as the de facto head of the military and his father's chosen successor, later apologised to President Wiliam Ruto, saying the comments were made in jest.