The Chairperson of the U.S Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Jim Risch, has urged his government to re-evaluate it’s security partnership with Uganda following the recent posts by the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba on his X account.
Senator Risch in a post on his X account warned that Gen Muhoozi had crossed the line with his recent accusation US persoonel at the Kampala Embassy undermining the two country’s security relationship and allegedly aiding National Unity Platform (NUP) Principal Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine kidnap himself.
“Commander @mkainerugaba has crossed a red line and now the U.S. must re-evaluate its security partnership, which includes sanctions, and military cooperation with Uganda. The president’s son, and likely successor, cannot just delete tweets and issue hollow apologies” he said.
Senator Risch who in the post rejected a recent apology issued by CDF Muhoozi on Friday after retracting his tweets warned that the U.S wouldn’t tolerate any instability or recklessness that endangers people’s lives.
“The U.S. will not tolerate this level of instability and recklessness when American personnel, U.S. interests, and innocent lives in the region are at stake” he said.
On Friday, first son and CDF Gen Muhoozi issued a statement apologising to the United States over a number of posts on his X account in which he alleged the US Embassy in Kampala was undermining military cooperation and allegedly aiding Bobi Wine whose whereabouts remain unknown.
Muhoozi noted that he made the remarks after being fed with wrong information and had spoken to the US Ambassador to Uganda and stabilised military cooperation between the two countries.
Last week, three prominent United States of America Senators criticised Uganda’s general elections held on January 15th describing them as shallow, staged to legitimise President Yoweri Museveni’s Seventh term and a setback for democracy calling on strict accountability measures from the U.S government.
The trio who include Senator Jim Risch, the chairperson of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Cory Booker a Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy tasked their government to demand for immediate action on the disputed polls from it’s security partner in the East African region.
