The Senior Presidential Advisor for Special Operations Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has hailed President Yoweri Museveni the greatest hero in East Africa for his role in Uganda's liberation struggle.
Gen Kainerugaba who used his official twitter handle to congratulate the UPDF on its 39th birthday said Mr. Museveni initiated a war that would liberate Uganda and change the politics of East Africa.
"39 years ago the greatest hero in East Africa led 27 armed men to attack the barracks at Kabamba. In doing that His Excellency Yoweri Museveni initiated a war that would liberate Uganda and change the politics of East Africa. Happy Tarehe Sita!" Gen Kainerugaba tweeted, attaching a photo of the president.
This is not the first time Gen Kainerugaba is openly showing his admiration for President Museveni. Last year, through his twitter handle, Gen Kainerugaba noted that there is no doubt that the Ugandan president is one of the finest pan-Africanists alongside Nelson Mandela and Julius Nyerere.
"These are the greatest African nationalists ever! Mzee Museveni is without a doubt in the top 5 Africans ever made. All of us soldiers in UPDF love him so much! Mzee is our hero!" Gen Kainerugaba noted.
The General then attached images of Julius Mwalimu Nyerere of Tanzania, Nelson Mandela of South Africa, and Samora Moisés Machel of Mozambique.
About Tarehe Sita
Nearly four decades ago, he led a group of young fighters of the National Resistance Army (NRA) in an attack on Kabamba military barracks in Mubende on February 6, 1981.
However, contrary to reports that the attack sparked off the liberation war that gave rise to his ascent to power five years later during a rocky period in the country, Museveni has in the recent past clarified that the struggle had long started before that eventful day.
"Tarehe Sita was not the first action," Mr Museveni said in 2018, adding that it was one of the subsequent efforts in the liberation struggle.
According to Mr Museveni, the late Mozambican revolutionary and military commander Samora Marcel and fallen Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere "were the first to help us in the 1970s".
"Never forget the solidarity of Tanzania and Mozambique," Museveni told the congregation at the 37th Tarehe Sita celebrations.
