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On Friday, Ugandans woke up to a barrage of tweets from the first son and Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba castigating US ambassador to Uganda William W. Popp for allegedly undermining the government of President Yoweri Museveni.

“Fellow Ugandans, it is my solemn duty to announce to you all that we as a nation are about to have a serious confrontation with the current US Ambassador to our country. For disrespecting our beloved and celebrated President and undermining Uganda's Constitution,” he posted on X.

“If this current US Ambassador does not apologise to Mzee personally by Monday morning (9.00 am) for his undiplomatic behaviour in our country, we will demand he leaves Uganda. We have no problem with the USA, as I have said many times it is a country we love and admire. But lately, we have a lot of evidence that they have been working against the NRM government.”

Information from the US embassy indicates that the staff were caught unawares and did not understand where the statements by the CDF were coming from, yet he gave them less than 72 hours to take action.

Mr Popp had not responded to the comments by press time, and neither had any official at the mission in Kampala.

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