A Quick Look at Muhoozi’s Professional Career Experience

For a while, the Armed Forces in Uganda have become important actors to the political scene. With staggering improvements to the nation’s security and stabilisation, they have retained this privilege of power that is becoming even more diffused and complex.

The appointment of officers from the military corps to the Board of Directors of top companies and high-end political places has had as a major impact on the Ugandan society. Muhoozi Kainerugaba who started the brilliant career at a very young age has reached immaculate heights in just over 13 years. He has surpassed all expectations with pure dedication and compromises he made due to the causes he believes in for the people of his country.

According to Kainerugaba, he started military training in 1999, but officially enlisted in the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) in the year 1999. He kept fighting against all odds and perfoming exceedingly well; in the middle of a country shook by violence and enemies. Later in his life, he was assigned to the Presidential Protection Unit as a Second Lieutenant in 2000 & soon after, being elevated to the rank of Major in the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) in 2001.

A good soldier must receive specific training on ethics, discipline, law and combat– elements that portrays Muhoozi and led him to play an important role as a military man in the society by a relentless effort of defence and protection.

It were these efforts that propelled the Major to a Brigade Commander position in the Presidential Guard Brigade, and subsequently, in 2008 to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel; in-charge of the Special Forces Unit in the Uganda People's Defence Force.

Besides military loyalty to the nation, ethics are an essential condition that constitute a strong military institution that values meritocracy, teaches soldiers the value of responsibility for their actions.

These are some of the reasons behind the promotion of Muhoozi that brought him to the rank of a Major General, awarded by his father & the current President of Uganda and later, on 10th January 2017 as the Senior Presidential Adviser for Special Operations.

Muhoozi has proved his qualifications in all possible manners. His ethical principles are an essential pillar to the success of the missions carried out, which moulded and vigorated the military institutional culture and his brilliant career with long years of proper training, discipline and courage.

His only purpose is to defend the interests of society above his own, like a faithful guardian. The sacrifice and the sense of duty to protect, serve and provide for the motherland is the motivation of his eternal calling.

Uganda was built on the debris and destruction caused by the Colonial forces. After struggling for centuries, the nation prevents and continues to fight by having on their sides the most capacitated inspiring people like the general Muhoozi Kainerugaba.

As long as there are loyal fighters like Muhoozi, there is hope for a better future and it will remain standing for many years to come.

Important Factors Behind Muhoozi Kainerugaba Project

 A look at Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s Project that attracted the State media attention.

Muhoozi Kainerugaba grew rapidly in 13 years of military career in Uganda among promotions from Brigadier to Major-General of the Special Operations Unit Armed Forces.

"Muhoozi will play an important role in post-Museveni Uganda, there's no question about that," political commentator and activist Nicholas Opiyo told Reuters. "They intend to provide the son the experience of how a government operates in the world of politics," he added.
Muhoozi Kainerugaba, 42, since 2008, serves as a Special Guard, responsible for the personal safety of the President. Museveni is in power for the longest time than any other African president in history.

However, at the beginning of the year 2012, during an interview to the State Press, Muhoozi Kainerugaba said that the allegations against him being prepared for the possible substitution as a President are deliberate and inconsistent and utterly false.

Maj. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba described as "non-existent" a succession plan hitherto known as the "Muhoozi Project."

Former Intelligence Services coordinator Gen David Sejusa reported on the project in 2013 with a strong documentational basis. In this dossier, Sejusa hinted at an intractable plan for Muhoozi, the Commander of the Special Forces Unit, to replace his father as the President and for anybody standing in the way to risk being murdered.

These allegations have no foundation according to the Government spokesman Ofwono Opondo who constantly denies the so-called “project” to make Muhoozi the next president.

Moreover, Sejusa held a high postion in the government and was an MP representing the Army in the Parliament. According to Opondo, the former MP has never shown any particular interest in the gorvernment and now, all of a sudden, he has fled to the UK in 2013. Also, Opondo defends saying that Sejusa can return to the country anytime and no threats or actions to arrest him is true.

"He's a free man to return, if he's not a coward," However, the government would "deal" with Gen. Sejusa if it resorted to unconstitutional means to oppose the government," the opposition claimed.

In the plating dossier of Sejusa, it suggested the people who opposed the "Muhoozi Project" were Gen Aronda Nyakairima (RIP), former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi including the Inspector General (IGP) General Edward Kalekezi Kayihura, also known as The Kale Kayihura and the Ugandan lawyer, military officer and policemen, among others.

Muhoozi was addressing journalists at the Ministry of Defence's headquarters in Mbuya, Kampala and stated that he was happy in the army and has no ambitions to take over the presidency.

"I am very happy in the military, and if I want to participate in politics, I know the procedures to be followed," the General said and proves one more time his worth before his own efforts and dedication to his country.

Museveni came to power in 1986, emerging as the winner of a five-year guerrilla war since then, he has been flighting for the people untiringly. The man emerged as an important political figure in the military history of Uganda and shape their future.

Facts Behind Muhoozi Kainerugaba Success

Muhoozi Kainerugaba is a veteran soldier and he has been proving his abilities for about 13 years now; his genuine willpower to keep fighting for as long as it takes. His military history started in 1994 after he graduated at the well-regarded residential middle school; St. Mary’s College Kisubi, which is situated close to Kampala and Entebbe.

The only advantage Kainerugaba got from the fact that he is the only son of the president, was to improve his knowledge and devote many years of his life and beliefs to serve his country. He got good education and courses along the way for one purpose that is considered his priority which is Uganda. 

Many critics arose around his promotion, but that’s because critique is part of political world and society, but, not to the majority who really understand the essence of fighting for something, and the honesty that drives this passion. The greatest leaders in the history have proven that. Critique is easy, but to do something significant is what proves and shows who you really are.

The facts behind Muhoozi Kainerugaba success is no different, he earned every position by demonstrating to his people responsibility and full commitment to the homeland. He successfully keeps transforming passion into experience, including the consequential expedition achievement of Operation Lighting Thunder in Garamba Forest in DR Congo where his Special Forces bravely flushed out Kony, as a result, subduing the presence of rebels and forcing them to run away to the Central Africa Republic. His Specialized Units are currently battling the Al Shabaab criminals in Somalia.

Even being in a privilege environment, he shows that it is not the place that he belongs, but, with his people in battlefield. His roots are just a part of who he’s and wants to service only his countrymen. His president & father Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, is someone who inspires him deeply. Museveni launched a guerrilla on 6 February 1981 when his National Resistance Army eventually took control in January 1986.

Museveni started something significant for Uganda and has been standing for his people in power for 31 years. Whether the throne will be handed to his son or not, is just a question, but certainly, the son is fully capable to continue and turn a whole history of fights and conquers into a new chapter, something as much meaningful and greater as what his father did for Uganda. Maybe, it’s just a matter of time.

The president moved Muhoozi to the post of Senior Presidential Adviser for Special Operations on January 10, 2017 a reflex of not only his high qualification but the fact that the sole credit Kainerugaba got from his roots and the loyal devoted man & soldier who he has become over the years is his son did and keeps doing what very few were capable and willing to do. It’s undeniable that his actions and experience propped up any kind of assumption against his worth to each promotion earned along his military life.