{"id":51570,"date":"2024-10-04T16:26:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/apologize-to-museveni-or-leave-uganda-gen-muhoozi-warns-us-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:27:57","slug":"apologize-to-museveni-or-leave-uganda-gen-muhoozi-warns-us-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/apologize-to-museveni-or-leave-uganda-gen-muhoozi-warns-us-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologize to Museveni or leave Uganda, Gen. Muhoozi warns US ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of posts on X, Muhoozi issued the ambassador an ultimatum to apologize to the Ugandan Head of State for his \u201cundiplomatic behavior\u201d by Monday or face expulsion from Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this current US ambassador does not apologize to Mzee personally by Monday morning (9:00 AM) for his undiplomatic behaviour in our country, we will demand that he leaves Uganda,\u201d Muhoozi wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, emphasized that Ugandan authorities are not at odds with the U.S., but with the envoy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no problem with the USA; as I have said many times, it is a country we love and admire. But lately, we have a lot of evidence that they have been working against the NRM government,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In another post, he expressed his contempt for the ambassador, saying, \u201cFellow Ugandans, it is my solemn duty to announce to you all that we as a nation are about to have a serious confrontation with the current US ambassador to our country, for disrespecting our beloved and celebrated President and for undermining the constitution of Uganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Muhoozi\u2019s outburst is seen as an escalation of tensions between the Ugandan leadership and the U.S., following recent sanctions imposed by the U.S. against four officers in the Ugandan Police Force (UPF) for alleged human rights violations, including torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment and punishment.<\/p>\n<p>In the sanctions announced on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, the U.S. Department of State identified the sanctioned officials as Bob Kagarura, former Wamala Regional Police Commander, and Alex Mwine, former District Police Commander for Mitanya District. <\/p>\n<p>Others include Elly Womanya, who at the time of the alleged violations was Senior Commissioner and Deputy Director of UPF\u2019s Criminal Investigations Division in charge of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), and Hamdani Twesigye, previously Deputy Inspector of Police assigned to the SIU.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. had previously imposed travel sanctions against several high-profile Ugandan officials, including Deputy Chief of the Defense Forces, Lt. Gen. Peter Elwelu, Parliament Speaker Anita Annette Among, and Minister Amos Lugoloobi, along with their families.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-75615 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mixcollage-04-oct-2024-04-03-pm-8080.jpg\" alt=\"Uganda\u2019s military chief and President Yoweri Museveni\u2019s son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, is now threatening to kick out the United States Ambassador William W. Popp over what he describes as undermining the government.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief of Defence Forces of the Uganda People&#8217;s Defence Forces (UPDF), Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has threated to kick out of the country the United States Ambassador William W. Popp over what he described as undermining the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000075614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000075614,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-04-oct-2024-04-03-pm-8080.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-04-oct-2024-04-03-pm-8080.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-04-oct-2024-04-03-pm-8080.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-04-oct-2024-04-03-pm-8080.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-04-oct-2024-04-03-pm-8080.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-04-oct-2024-04-03-pm-8080.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000075614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51570"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51570"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}