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Army chief Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba revived his feud with his brother-in-law Odrek Rwabwogo, saying in a series of posts on X that he would arrest the entire staff of the Rwabwogo-led Presidential Advisory Committee on Exports and Industrial Development, or PACEID.
The announcement, coming months after Gen Kainerugaba declared a “ceasefire” at the request of his mother, Janet Museveni, got social media into overdrive, with many followers avidly sharing his post.
“We are going to arrest all the members of PACEID involved in corruption,” Gen Kainerugaba wrote, claiming President Museveni had told him to “get all of them”. In an earlier post, he said: “PACEID is an illegal organisation. We shall start arresting its members immediately.”
We have started arresting the criminals in PACEID. Mzee, has told me to get all of them!
— Muhoozi Kainerugaba (@mkainerugaba) August 25, 2026
In August 2024, he used the same platform to call Mr Rwabwogo “the biggest thief in Uganda”, an allegation that surprised many Ugandans.
His posts about PACEID came a day after the consecration of Mr Rwabwogo’s wife, Patience, as a bishop.
After the posts, local media reported that Mr Rwabwogo’s aide, Matthew Bagonza, had been arrested. Nothing was said about where he was being detained or why he had been arrested.
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Gen Kainerugaba is an avid user of X, where he makes announcements about state affairs and his nascent political outfit, the Patriotic League of Uganda. His posts have triggered controversy and attracted criticism from the opposition because, as a military officer, he is barred by the Constitution from engaging in politics.
He also used X to announce a clampdown on former Speaker of Parliament Anita Among over corruption allegations.
Gen Kainerugaba made direct reference to Mr Rwabwogo, saying: “The next time Odrek [Rwabwogo] dares to call any security officer without my approval, he will be arrested.”
Earlier, in a post that he deleted, he said he was fighting rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army when some men were busy marrying “our sisters”.
Mr Rwabwogo told reporters that after receiving news of Mr Bagonza’s arrest, he checked with all security agencies but could not find him.
“I wasn’t able to find where he was. So, I drove to Entebbe. I met the president, and the president told me that he was not aware, given no order of the arrest of this officer and that he was going to try and find what the story is and the circumstances of his arrest,” he said.
“What was important is that he did not order this and was not aware. I would have been surprised if he had done that—because the record of President Museveni over the last 40 years is that there’s no arbitrary arrest. There’s a due process: Follow the law.”
In June, when Gen Kainerugaba ordered the shutdown of the Daily Monitor and its sister broadcasters—NTV, KFM, Ddembe FM and Spark TV—Mr Rwabwogo released a video criticising the decision, saying it would make it hard for Uganda to achieve tenfold economic growth the government is aiming for.
Mr Rwabwogo came to PACEID, founded in March 2022, from a media background. He worked as a journalist for the New Vision and briefly at the Uganda Revenue Authority in the late 1990s. In the early 2000s, he ran a public relations and communications firm called Terp Consult, which has since closed.
Editor’s Note | Updated August 27, 2026, 12:36: An earlier version of this article did not have Mr Rwabwogo’s reaction to his brother-in-law Gen Kainerugaba’s X posts. We have added it.
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