{"id":14818,"date":"2025-01-12T11:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T11:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=14818"},"modified":"2025-01-12T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T11:41:30","slug":"ugandas-military-leader-leaves-x-after-controversial-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/14818\/ugandas-military-leader-leaves-x-after-controversial-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda&#8217;s military leader leaves X after controversial posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s chief of defense forces General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda&#8217;s President Yoweri Museveni, has declared his departure from X, where he has been known for sharing provocative messages.<\/p>\n<p>His recent tweet, which included a threat against prominent opposition leader Bobi Wine, drew significant backlash.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, he stirred controversy by talking about an invasion of neighbouring Kenya, prompting his father to intervene and issue an apology.<\/p>\n<p>In his final message on Friday, he stated that it was time for him to focus on his military responsibilities, although he hinted at a future return to engage with his one million followers.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Gen Kainerugaba has deactivated his X account.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, he quit the micro-blogging platform only to return days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s chief of defense forces General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda&#8217;s President Yoweri Museveni, has declared his departure from X, where he has been known for sharing provocative messages. His recent tweet, which included a threat against prominent opposition leader Bobi Wine, drew significant backlash. In 2022, he stirred controversy by talking about an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"AP","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2362,33],"tags":[461,132,462],"class_list":["post-14818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-africa","category-featured","category-politics","tag-muhoozi-kainerugaba","tag-uganda","tag-yoweri-museveni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}