Uganda President's Son Live-Tweets Torture From His Basement
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Uganda's President Museveni, shared a video on X showing activist Edward Ssebuufu's torture. Kainerugaba is likely Museveni's successor.
The son of Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has shared a video on X displaying the ordeal of a torture victim under dictatorship.
In the video, the suffering of Edward Ssebuufu, a prominent opposition activist, was shown to the world by Kainerugaba, the Telegraph reported.
Notably, Muhoozi Kainerugaba (51) is Commander of Uganda's Armed Forces and the man most likely to succeed his 80-year-old father as President.
The sons of the dictator have often been accused of violent behaviour – Col Muammar Gaddafi's one-time heir, Saif al-Islam, carries an indictment for alleged crimes against humanity – yet only Kainerugaba has apparently chosen to live-post his cruelty to 1.1 million social media followers.
In those posts, Kainerugaba's X account revels in Ssebuufu's agony and degradation, describing how the prisoner was supposedly 'crying" and 'urinating", before adding, 'I still have to castrate him."
Kainerugaba, received a bachelors degree in political science from Nottingham University in 1997 and passed out of Sandhurst in 2000. He proclaims his goal to ascend to the pinnacle of power.
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Kainerugaba's previous outbursts have already earned him notoriety. He has in many ways praised Vladimir Putin as a 'hero", even offered to send Ugandan troops to fight for Russia. Besides he had also threatened to invade neighbouring Kenya ('two weeks to capture Nairobi"); and had also expressed his desire to marry Giorgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister.
The background on his X homepage carries an image of Robert Powell playing Jesus Christ in the 1977 miniseries Jesus of Nazareth.
Ssebuufu, Head of Security for Uganda's opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, disappeared after being arrested near the capital, Kampala, on April 27.
Four days later, Kainerugaba's X account announced that Ssebuufu was in his captivity.
This followed a series of tweets glorying in ordeal of the prisoner. 'The beards were the first thing the boys removed. After he finished crying and urinating," read one post.
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