The meeting came days after Gen Muhoozi posted threats on social media, following a visit by EU officials to the National Unity Platform (NUP) offices in Kavule on May 15. The army chief wrote on X: “This is an Abomination! @EUinUG is really playing with fire. Sawa! We have MARKED all of them especially the one shaking Kabobi's hand.”

Ambassador Sadek told Gen Saleh that the post had created insecurity among diplomats. 

“He threatened to take us to his base. I think it has created also some security issues… we don’t know what his followers may take into their own hands.”

The diplomats warned that such statements could damage Uganda’s international image and affect trade and investment.

‘We shall manage him for you’

Gen Saleh, who is President Museveni’s brother and Gen Muhoozi’s uncle, described Muhoozi as a “new type” of soldier. 

“He is a Gen-Z I think, that one we have already tried… he even attacked the Human Rights Commission, but it is not a big issue really because for him he is outside us,” he said, while recounting Uganda’s military history through the Kings African Rifles, Uganda Army, UNLA, NRA, and UPDF.

He urged the envoys to hold Gen Muhoozi accountable as an individual, not as a representation of government policy. “You are studying him as a character… Some time back they used to say that you shouldn’t have educated soldiers in the army… now almost the entire top command is full of degrees, masters, PhDs. I think they have some problems in their heads,” he added.

“But that one we shall manage for you; we shall get him on board, to sort it if he has offended you.”