Muhoozi Kainerugaba

Mm.

But just two months on, the commander of Uganda's armed forces, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, happens to be the son of the president, has come out and said Uganda is withdrawing.

They don't want anything to do with it, and the reason is they're worried about doing anything that doesn't have King Charles' approval.

Now, there's so much to unpack here.

He attended the inaugural one.

You know, he would absolutely want to get behind this.

He's a commander-in-chief of the armed forces-

Mm

Heza and Meza.

General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who's the son of the president or something like that, and also the military chief, you know how it rolls in, in Uganda, announced the withdrawal on social media.

He said Uganda did not want to be seen as opposing the kin- king amid ongoing royal tensions.

It's probably all about that letter, isn't it?

Now Uganda, a former British protectorate, has withdrawn from the games.

In a statement on X, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the country's chief of defense forces and son of the Ugandan president, wrote, quote, "In order not to be construed as being opposed to His Majesty King Charles III of the United Kingdom, whom we deeply revere, Uganda hereby withdraws from the Invictus Games." The statement comes just two days after King Charles issued a public declaration clarifying Harry's royal status upon his recent return to the UK.

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Uganda's military chief, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who is also the son of the country's long-ruling president, Yoweri Museveni, said he would run for president in 2031.

Kainerugaba has long been touted as a possible successor to his aging father and is well known for his fiery social media posts, including threats to behead the leading opposition leader, Bobi Wine.

He played a key role in securing his father's reelection in the last polls in January by ordering a crackdown on opponents and cutting the internet.

Charles, I have a specific question to you, and, and, you know, be aware of us sort of figuring this out.

My, my question to you, Charles, is you've argued, I think it was on X, so I can't remember, but now, I think you were writing a piece about, uh, General Muhoozi and, and, and you said something that we've reached the point where the cost of corruption is much higher than the political benefit of it that Andrew has described, and that once you reach that point, you've got to confront the issue differently.

Do you wanna say a bit more about the cost? Because the benefit, the political, the cost of it in the public mind is much higher than the benefit, the political benefit you're deriving from doing it, then I don't see what's a...

What, what do you say about that?

Mm.

So then what has happened is that corruption itself, and, and you mentioned this, Bob, has now become the basis on which the state is most delegitimized.

But, but there's a, there is a very uncomfortable thing about this, you know, and, and, and, and, uh, and this is where I mention, you know, Muhoozi because one of the things that, uh, I, uh, has happened is, uh, y- y- you know Muhoozi, you know, um, Andrew's friend, is our friend, is very disagreeable in many respects.

But I think his genius has been to recognize the potential of this as a gal- an, uh, a galvanizing issue and as something that differentiates his voice From that of the old man.