
“I’ve been quarreling about this issue of bail. It’s a provocation. In my culture, when you wrong me, my clan has a duty to avenge. That’s why when my son was born, I named him Muhoozi which means vengeance, such that when someone wrongs me he avenges” (…) “Among the Banyankole, if you insult me we fight. But according to other cultures, provoking and insulting is free speech. Free speech by insulting me and my mother?” – Yoweri Tibuhurwa Kaguta Museveni (04.02.2022).
Clearly there is a reason why Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerubaga got his name. Not that his named “Uhuru” which means freedom or amani (Swahili)/emirembe (Luganda) which means peace. No, he is named Muhoozi, which means the “avenger of the innocence”.
Just to put things in perspective, an avenger means: “a person who exacts punishment or inflicts harm in return for an injury or wrong” (Oxford Languages). To be more blunt, a man who plans and intends to revenge someone. That is what is at stake and meaning of it all.
I know Mirembe is a name for a baby-girl or a woman, but the meaning is still profound, as it says something of the intension of the parents. Instead of wanting more warfare and someone to be the vigilante for you, which is why the father named him Muhoozi.
As an intent of revenge or to avenge a cause, Museveni named his first son just that. Like the good “Christian” man he is and brutal rebel he is known to be. We know there is one rule for the His Excellency and another for the general public. That is well-known and been stated over the three decades his been in power.
Therefore, saying this in 2022, as the father is ageing is making it very clear. He doesn’t intend to go out in peace or harmony. No, this old man doesn’t plan to create a space of liberty and freedom. No, he will avenge and use his son to do his bidding. It all makes sense, why the man who took power by the guns. Is issuing his son to carry the same. That’s why Muhoozi is carrying the weight, using the guns and ushering in suffering on the dissidents of the state. It all makes sense and it’s a brutal one at that.
We know now why he was trained as a warrior, sent to military school and became a military commander. It was all to serve a cause for the old man with the hat. That is the lesson here and his just a weapon of destruction to the ones that is in the way of Museveni. Muhoozi is there to stifle, destroy and silence the ones who does the father any wrong. It is that simple and his purpose is really described for all of us. Not only in the name, but in the actions as well.
This is why Special Forces Command (SFC) has acted like it does. That’s why the army is under his wings and his a high ranking official. It’s all to do what the father needs and retort with blunt force. Initially, the role of the avenger of the ancient rebel. Peace.















