General Muhuzi Kaibinrugaba, the commander of the Ugandan ground forces and the son of the country’s president, received attention for his tweet in which he asked Georgia Meloni, the most well-known candidate for the Italian presidency, to be his wife.
The tweet’s warning of a significant diplomatic escalation caused a great deal of confusion, and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, his son, was relieved of his responsibility for leading the nation’s infantry troops as a result.
The tale begins with a contentious general in the nation who was also the leading contender to succeed his father. In the tweet, he requested Meloni’s hand in marriage in exchange for a dowry of 100 cows from the greatest breed—the “Nakur” variety.
The Ugandan military commander announced that he had recruited Masi Matsanti, the Italian ambassador to Uganda, as a marriage mediator and that he would negotiate the bride-price in the oddest marriage proposal ever.
In a later tweet, he also threatened to invade Italy to avenge the insult that would be directed at him if the bride turned down the offer. However, he later deleted the message to avoid any potential diplomatic problems while preserving the tweets about the marriage proposal.
The tweets, which gained widespread traction in Italy, incited a great deal of ire in Ugandan circles because they were seen as inappropriate for a responsible person to lead the government of a friendly nation, and they were praised by those who oppose the fascist right, to which the future Italian Prime Minister belongs.
Following this conduct, which was discussed by hundreds of Twitter users worldwide, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni issued an order in which he quickly dismissed his son, hoping to quell public resentment and avert any potential diplomatic incident.
Kinerogaba’s tweets were efforts at fun, and while some of his admirers defended him, they shouldn’t be taken seriously.
The country’s constitution forbids political advocacy, and many people believe that any other soldier would have faced a military trial for tweeting in the same way, according to a story by the publication “The Guardian.” However, many people believed that the issue was worse.
Notably, this wasn’t the only tweet that sparked debate in the nation; the general who was fired was dubbed “the tweeting general in Uganda” due to the quantity of his tweets, particularly in recent months, which infuriated some Ugandans who viewed them as repetitive, provocative, and occasionally dangerous.
He has occasionally tweeted in support of the deadly rebels fighting in eastern Congo as well as the Tigray rebels opposing Ethiopian federal forces.
Additionally, he allegedly asserted that all Africans supported Russia in its conflict in Ukraine. At another point, he calculated that it would only take him and his army two weeks to occupy Nairobi, and he even threatened to do so.
In an unprecedented development since 1945, Giorgia Meloni’s “Fratelli d’Italia” party won the Italian legislative elections last week.
According to polls, Melloni is most likely to lead the Italian government after receiving between 22 and 26 percent of the vote.
The general who tweets. An army leader is overthrown by a marriage proposal for 100 cows.
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