Lt Gen Muhoozi has been in Rwanda since 14th March 2022. It was his second visit to Rwanda aimed at mending relations between Rwanda and Uganda following the recent one on 22nd January 2022.
At the time, he was received by President Paul Kagame at Village Urugwiro with whom they held discussions on strengthening bilateral ties.
On Tuesday 15th March 2022, Lt Gen Muhoozi visited Kigali Genocide Memorial where he paid homage to victims laid there.
In the afternoon, the management of Kigali Arena revealed that Lt Gen Muhoozi toured Kigali Arena, Rwanda’s hub of sports and entertainment where he explored different facilities including courts and shot hoops.
Rwanda’s Presidency has also revealed that President Kagame hosted Lt Gen Muhoozi at his farm in Eastern Province on Tuesday and gave him long horned cows locally known as ‘Inyambo’.
In Rwandan culture, cows represent a very significant symbol of friendship and are considered part of the best wealth a person can ever possess.
In Rwanda, cows were the only token that would be given for dowry or as a present to a friend. Even today, a cow is still considered the best present one can ever give a beloved one. Be it a wedding, graduation or a birthday party, cow giving makes the occasion more colourful and real.
It is not the first time Kagame gives cows to the family of Museveni.
On 31st July 2011, President Kagame gave cows to his counterpart of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who was on a visit to Rwanda.
At the time, Museveni was joining Rwanda for a community work to build a school for Nine Year Basic Education in Kanombe. Museveni pledged a contribution worth US$300,000 for completion of the school.
Towards the end of the same year, President Paul Kagame who was in Uganda was given 20 cows by Museveni.
The recent donation of cows to Lt Gen Muhoozi is a great symbol evidencing that efforts to restore bilateral ties that had deteriorated in 2017 are yielding good results.
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