Museveni Family Breaks Silence After Sickness Reports

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Monday, June 12, 2023 – Family of President Yoweri Museveni has broken the silence after it emerged a rumor of President Museveni being admitted in critical condition.

Taking to his official pages, his son also a senior army officer Muhoozi Kainerugaba, said his father was responding well to medication and wished him a quick recovery.

This is after social media was awash with reports that the long-serving head of State was no more after being admitted in the Intensive Care Unit ICU.

“Today’s morning prayer goes to H.E. the president of Uganda Mzee Gen Yoweri Museveni may God continue to bless and protect Mzee, may God give you good health and May you live long to witness the MK movement in 2026!! Ameen. We love you so much mzee,” he tweeted.

Museveni fell ill with signs of Coronavirus what he(Museveni) confirmed saying he had been forced to discharge his official duties from home.

“The corona virus, by domesticating me, is helping me to catch up with my paper work. The symptoms are milder than yesterday. In the night, slight throbbing (Enkuratima) in the Ruhoorahoore area of the head. This is the part of the head that has a gap in children.

“Also, some slight roughness on the throat. Otherwise, I am even tempted to do my push-ups, but common sense reminds me not to disturb the bio-chemistry of the body where the war with the enemy (the virus) is going on with additional strains on the body,” said Museveni in along statements seen by Homenews.co.ke.

The ailing Museveni then stated that all the NRM cadres and followers should continue to understand the importance of robust health.

“I always avoid factors that can cause ill-health, not because I fear being sick but because I detest missing the struggle for Africa’s freedom,” he added.

President Museveni has been the long-serving head of State Uganda having taken over the reins in the year 1986.

He held posts in transitional governments upto 1980 before running for presidency of Uganda. When the elections, widely believed to have been rigged, were won by Milton Obote.

Museveni and former president Yusufu Lule then decided to form the National Resistance Movement (NRM) which he  led the National Resistance Army NRA that waged a guerrilla war against Obote’s regime. The resistance eventually prevailed, and on January 26, 1986, Mr. Museveni declared himself president of Uganda.

He was elected to the post on May 9, 1996, and his backers won control of the National Assembly in legislative elections held the following month. Museveni was reelected in 2001 and again in 2006 after a Constitutional amendment passed the previous year eliminated established term limits for the presidency.

He was reelected again in 2011 and 2016, although the opposition and international observers noted problems with the polling process in both elections.

A Constitutional amendment passed in 2017 removed the age limit for presidential candidates that had been set at age 75 while also reimposing a limit of two terms, clearing the way for an aging Museveni to stand for the next two presidential elections. He was reelected in 2021, but the campaign period prior to the polls was criticised as being repressive.

So far his son, Muhhzi Kainerugaba, who is a senior army general, is positioning himself to succeed the father.