Major Muhoozi Kainerugaba --- up close and personal

Major Muhoozi Kainerugaba --- up close and personal

Radio Katwe promised its readers in March that we would bring you a dossier on the third most powerful man in Uganda, Major Muhoozi Kainerugaba.

Here it is for you.

Muhoozi as we all know is a son of President Yoweri Museveni (also known as “Mzee”).

The official line is that Muhoozi was born in 1974, but some sources say he could have been born in 1972 or 1973.

As we have been reporting and as the late President Milton Obote told the country long ago, Muhoozi was born out of a union between Museveni and a young Mutooro woman who either worked for the Foreign Service or was a recruit in the FRONASA organisation.

She was called Hope and had been Museveni’s housekeeper. She was a sister to Museveni’s former classmate Valerino Rwaheru at Ntare School in the 1960s.

Some UPC sources who know the story well say that one day in Tanzania, maybe in a state of mental breakdown or depression, Museveni pounced on Hope and cut her up with a panga (machete), killing her.

Other people say he suspected she was a spy planted on him by the Amin regime and he decided to murder her.

But the fact is that Muhoozi’s mother was murdered by Museveni and it has been and remained a closely guarded secret known to very few people.

Anyway, one day in 1978 when the Museveni family was still in exile in Dar es Salaam, Natasha who was still very young became sick with malaria.

Museveni came home in the evening and shouted at Muhoozi, asking him why he did not look after his sister so that she does not get malaria. You can imagine a man who shouts at a young boy who did not even understand what being sick was!

That is how Museveni’s relationship was and has remained with Muhoozi. They are not close in an emotional way. Muhoozi behaves toward Muhoozi as you would behave towards your boss at the office.

When Museveni came to power in 1986, Muhoozi and Natasha were taken to Kampala Parents School which was the best primary school at that time in Kampala.

Muhoozi was raised like his sisters Natasha, Patience, and Diana in the strict Mulokole (born again) way which Janet adopted a few years after Museveni came to power.

His friends at Kings’ College Budo used to wonder when they would see him going to the school chapel alone as a teenager and reading the Bible a lot. He was quiet and down to earth. You can even say he was humble.

He was the same person when he went to St. Mary’s College Kisubi for A’Level.

During their primary and secondary school days, Museveni’s children were not very bright in class and the First Couple used to hire teachers to come to State House and coach them during the holidays.

Museveni feels that his daughters are not very intelligent because they inherited their mother’s dullness.

But he does not tell us why Muhoozi is also not very sharp and yet Janet is not his mother.

Muhoozi did not perform outstandingly his A’Level and he was sent to Nottingham University to study economics and political science.

Some people claim that when Muhoozi was sent to Nottingham University, a one Fideri Kirungi who was an ISO agent was also given a scholarship to Nottingham under the cover of being a student, but that his main work was to safeguard Muhoozi and report on any threats to the President’s son.

Kirungi came back, got a job at the Monitor in Kampala and while he was there, he used to pass information on to ISO about Monitor activities. He later left the Monitor to start the Weekly Observer along with a number of Monitor staff like the late Kevin Aliro, Linda Nabusayi, and Ibrahim Semujju.

A number of reports reaching Radio Katwe say that Muhoozi was dull in school and they go so far as to say he did not even finish his Bachelors of Arts degree.

At the time Muhoozi came back from Nottingham University, Uganda was a country crazy about celebrity and the newspapers reported on any celebrity gossip.

Some observers have reasoned in submissions to Radio Katwe that if Muhoozi had finished and earned a degree, his Nottingham graduation ceremony would have been given mazimum publicity in photo displays and gossip stories in the Ugandan newspapers.

This did not happen at all and it proves that the rumours that he did not finish university could be true.

Instead he came back home and joined the army. He got a number of young people to start undergoing military training somewhere at Kasenyi near Entebbe where the Presidential Protection Unit used to train.

These young people included Victor Rumanyika, Jimmy Bageire, Brian Walusimbi, Bob Drani, and others.

Drani is the bald-headed guy who commanded the Black Mamba during their raid of the High Court last November and it is suspected that Brian Walusimbi who is now in America is one of the ESO agents stationed in North America.

Muhoozi, Victor Rumanyika, Charles Mweibeha, and Karoli Ssemogerere (son of DP heavyweight Paulo Ssemogerere) started the “Frontline” magazine in 1994.

It was supposed to be a magazine on current affairs in Uganda but focusing on the NRM “struggle” and the armed conflicts in Uganda since 1962.

When Muhoozi joined hands with Ssemogerere’s son in a publishing venture like this, observers felt that he was showing some tolerance and liberal thinking which respects other political views, unlike his father Museveni who hates views different from his.

But around 1996 after the presidential elections, the old liberal Muhoozi began dying out. He was being groomed by his father to succeed him and Museveni was making that clear to the boy. “Frontline” magazine died out.

In 1996 or 1997, Muhoozi once tried to have sex with Lenina Mbabazi the daughter of NRM heavyweight Amama Mbabazi at the conference center or the Nile Hotel.

Nina resisted his advances and he then tried to rape her. He failed to rape her and the scandal was quietly buried.

Muhoozi became interested in a number of girls and wanted to get married, but Janet Museveni would vet them and refuse them.

Muhoozi once dated a girl called Flower who used to work at Wina Classics boutique on Kampala Road.

He invited her to State House one day for lunch. Flower came in a sexy and provocative dress. The whole family was at the table.

Museveni kept eyeing Flower and asking her questions about her life, her family, and her school. He was enjoying himself and he found Flower amusing.

Janet was seated at the other side of the dining table and she was becoming angry at the attention her husband was giving Flower. She knew what he wanted from Flower.

Muhoozi was quiet the whole time and said very little.

After that, Janet flushed Flower out of State House and told Muhoozi point blank that she never wanted to see Flower again there.

Muhoozi after that dated Olivia Sabune (or Sabuni). Janet Museveni refused to hear Muhoozi when he wanted to marry Olivia. She was vetoed by Janet also.

Olivia Sabune is now living in Sweden.

Muhoozi clashed over Olivia with a guy called Andrew Kananura or “Desh” as he is nicknamed.

A big problem came when Natasha Museveni became crazy about Desh. There was no way Muhoozi was going to allow Natasha to marry Desh when Muhoozi was a bitter rival with Desh over Olivia.

There was another problem and this problem made Janet Museveni almost go mad.

Andrew Kananura’s mother, Stella Kagandi Kananura, was a first aunt of Winnie Byanyima. Andrew and Winnie are first cousins.

There was no way in hell that Andrew was going to marry Natasha and then at the wedding, Janet Museveni finds herself sitting in the same room as Winnie and moreover from then on, Janet and her bitter rival Winnie become in-laws!

The relationship between Desh and Natasha was crushed to death. But up to now, Natasha says that is she had had her way, she would have married Desh because that is where her heart was in a sincere way.

When Muhoozi’s turn came to get married in 1999, Janet made it clear that all other girls had been vetoed and Muhoozi was instead to marry Charlotte Nankunda Kuteesa, the daughter of Sam Jennifer Kuteesa.

Muhoozi complained and complained but Museveni and Janet put their feet down.

Just before their glamorous wedding in July 1999, Muhoozi went on a sex spree with other girls as a protest against being forced to marry Charlotte whom he did not love or like.

After they got married, Muhoozi refused to sleep with Charlotte for even one hour for the first three or four months of their marriage. He even left Charlotte and moved to another house in Entebbe.

But Janet and Museveni forced him with threats to go back to his wife. Muhoozi’s life became a living hell to this day.

He went on with his sex sprees. One of the high profile girls he slept with was Jackie Rwivanga Rugasira, the wife of the businessman Andrew Rugasira. What could Rugasira do but swallow?

Muhoozi is reported to have even slept with Susan Muhwezi, wife of Brigadier Jim Muhwezi but Radio Katwe cannot confirm this yet.

Muhoozi was sent to the military college Sandhurst soon after his wedding. How Muhoozi went to Sandhurst showed the criminal character of Museveni, a man who will bend any rule and tell any lie without shame to get his way.

The students who are admitted to Sandhurst must be soldiers already but Muhoozi was not. So State House created the lie that Muhoozi was a Local Defence Unit paramilitary soldier and he qualified.

Pressure was also put on the British High Commission in Kampala to put in a word for Muhoozi and he ended up being admitted to Sandhurst.

There is a Japanese army officer who was a student at Sandhurst at the same time as Muhoozi. One day he met a Ugandan in Tokyo and when the Ugandan told the Japanese that he was a Ugandan, the Japanese officer asked him what he thought about Muhoozi.

The Japanese laughed and said he had not seen an empty head like Muhoozi’s for a long time. He said at Sandhurst, Muhoozi failed to impress anybody and he was always at the bottom of the class.

Another Ugandan familiar with Sandhurst said Muhoozi never used to feature much in the classes for strategic planning and military doctrine. He was usually in the gym and the physical fitness classes.

But when the boy graduated, his graduation was given several pages in Uganda’s newspapers and he was treated like a celebrity. Museveni attended the ceremony in person along with two of his daughters.

That is why we are telling you that if Muhoozi had finished at Nottingham University, we would have seen his graducation photos everywhere in Uganda.

After his Sadhurst course, he was deployed in the Presidential Protection Unit. Muhoozi recommended that the Commandant of the PPU should be Lt. Leopold Kyanda.

There was a time when Leo Kyanda was making a habit of sleeping with many men’s wives and one of these women was Alice Kaboyo, who is related to Janet Museveni. Alice Kaboyo’s husband, the late Kenneth Kaboyo complained bitterly at what Kyanda was doing with his wife.

When the scandal became too much for State House, Kyanda was transferred to become the Chief of Military Intelligence, to cool the situation down.

Muhoozi has now become the right-hand man of his father and he is a deputy to his uncle General Salim Saleh in doing special duties for Museveni.

The latest reports we have are that Muhoozi is the guy who actually runs the External Security Organisation and Lt. John Maku-Iga is just a miserable figure head.

Muhoozi walks to ESO and gets the largest chunk of the operational budget and spends it as he likes. The staff at ESO have become demoralised.

Agents and operatives who work for ESO and ISO are given 300,000 shs. A week as an operational allowance but many in ESO are complaining that they are no longer getting their benefits because of Muhoozi.

Muhoozi has taken charge of a top security site on Mutungo Hill called the Katonga Complex. This is where ESO has its listening station and gadgets to intercept satellite phone communication and conversations.

We also have reliable information to the effect that in the Presidential Guard Brigade, the soldiers who guard the First Family do not like Muhoozi at all. They see him as a privileged boy who does nothing but order them around.

The hate and resentment became so serious that since February, the PGB has slowly been undergoing a reshuffle and many PGB boys have been re-deployed to other units in the regular army.

This is why Museveni is wearing body armour so much these days. He knows that even the PGB can no longer be counted on to be loyal to him. The problem is that the PGB is made up mainly of the Bahima who are the people in Uganda who are the closest to Museveni and who have benefited most under his regime.

Museveni now wonders that if the Bahima are becoming disgruntled, who can he turn to?

Muhoozi now takes care of the First Family’s business interests. When the issue of selling the Dairy Corporation to a Thai “investor” collapsed, Andrew Rugasira contacted some South Africans to see if they could become the new owners.

He was doing the deal on behalf of the First Family and he got a phone call one night. Muhoozi was on the line and after talking to Rugasira, he transferred Rugasira directly to a line where Museveni was waiting.

Museveni stated the First Family’s interest in the deal and Rugasira took his marching orders.

This is why we wonder when some people still believe that Museveni is not the Thief-in-Chief of Uganda. He is the Mastermind of all the corruption we see.

Muhoozi’s wife Charlotte opened an Internet café at Garden City in Kampala.

When another company also came up and tried to open a café there, Charlotte ordered the authorities to block the other café from operating there. She said point blank that she did not want competition near her business.

You can read more on Muhoozi in our earlier story on how he was ordered by Janet Museveni to kick Amelia Kyambadde out of State House after the Kisozi ranch title was registered in the names of Amber Kyambadde, a child who Museveni has with Amelia.

We shall be bringing you more dossiers on the top people in the NRM inner circle so that the cycle of ignorance that Ugandans have suffered is broken.