KAMPALA-UGANDA/NEWSDAY: It started simple with a call by UNAIDs executive director Winnie Byanyima to the Commander Land forces and first son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba to delete a tweet in which he had rallied the Ethiopian Tigrayan rebels to fight on.
Muhoozi had tweeted; “I urge my great and brave brothers in the Tigrayan Defence Forces to listen to the words of General Yoweri Museveni! I am as angry as you and I support your cause. Those who raped our Tigrayan sisters and killed our brothers must be punished!”
But Byanyima retweeted the same asking Lt. Gen. Muhoozi to delete the message because it would endanger Ugandans.
“Please delete this tweet. It is risking the lives of Ugandans working and living in Ethiopia”
But Muhoozi instead responded by saying “Madame Winnie. Good to hear from you. It’s been a long time. I last saw you in State House in 1987. It is the responsibility of the Ethiopian gov’t to protect all citizens and visitors in Addis and the rest of the country. If the TDF is doing it in areas they control, why the government shouldn’t”.
But instead of Byanyima responding to the above, Byanyima simply shot back without a specific mention of Ethiopia or Muhoozi but retweeting Lawyer David Mpanga’s tweet which quoted the Bible and Abraham Lincoln.
“Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.” Proverbs 17:28
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to [tweet] and to remove all doubt.”— ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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