Uganda’s Information and National Guidance Minister Dr. Chris Baryomunsi has publicly decried what he has called the contradictory tweets by the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) also president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s son Gen. Kainerugaba Muhoozi, on circumstances surrounding the NUP president Bobi Wine’s abandonment of his home since the January 15,2026 elections, as well as the continued heavy presence of the security forces there.
Speaking during the Saturday January, 31 Capital Gang talk show on Capital FM Radio, Dr. Baryomunsi stated that Gen. Muhoozi’s tweets makes his work difficult while referencing to what he called the contradictions they carry.
He had been tasked to explain what was the government’s position regarding the Bobi Wine versus the security force’s seemingly un answered question under which he was quoted by the media assuring the world that the former opposition presidential candidate is not a wanted person by the government, contrary to the information contained in several Gen. Muhoozi’s posts via his X formerly twitter space, that they are looking for him dead or alive.
“I have discussed this issue with appointing authority-the president, and admittedly, his tweets make my work a little bit difficult because of contradictions” Dr. Baryomunsi said.
Shortly after the disputed January 15 elections, Bobi Wine whose real name is Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi had secretly taken leave of his Magere home in Wakiso district to un disclosed location, citing heavy security deployment there with claims that he had received information pointing to a well laid scheme by some of the state operatives to harm him.
As Bobi Wine’s home departure gained momentum, his wife Barbie Kyagulanyi Itungo at one point released a recorded video presaging un precedent serious night attack on her life and other home residents by armed male military officers, before she could be heard in the recording crying for assistance.
The reported attack was collaborated with adducing recorded videos and pictures from Bobi Wine official social’s posts, revealing the extent of the caused damage ranging to the broken house doors, cut chairs, among others, not sparing his wife whom he claimed to have tortured and left hospitalized.
While at Nsambya Hospital, Itungo shared her ordeal with the media in as she pinned soldiers to have invaded on her personal privacy inside their house, displaying the torture marks on some of her bodily parts.
Some of the said CDF’s tweets were seen in affirmative of some of these claims.
“The other day BBC was asking me that the head of army says they are looking for Kyagulanyi but I had consulted widely within the government by the time I said no he isn’t a wanted person, and as we speak now the position of government is that, there are no changes against Kyagulanyi. He is in hiding on his own I don’t know what is hiding from. If he reached home nobody will arrest him”, Baryomunsi emphasized.
The Information and National Guidance Minister noted he does not condone beating anybody whether Kyagulanyi or his wife, saying being the wife to a NUP president is not a crime.
“If there are any charges government wants to prefer against her should arrest her and be taken to courts of law. If indeed she was assaulted, that would be wrong and we condemn it”
The Kinkizi West legislator insisted that Muhoozi tweets notwithstanding, Bobi Wine is not a wanted person, stating it would be wrong to damage his home or even insult anybody there.
“These contradictions of the CDF and his tweets we shall handle them internal including guiding him on how to responsibly use the social media, because we have guidelines on how the social media should be used, and is among those to benefit from that guidance so that even when he tweets he shouldn’t cause contradictions and confuse the public regarding what government is saying”.
The former ruling NRM party chairperson for Western Uganda further urged the panel to always treat his communication as an official government position since it is based on wide internal consultation and thorough checks.
“When you hear my statement please take it as an official position of the government and is a processed statement where I consult widely including the president of the country”. He Explained.
He finally appealed for pacing down of the tones from the opposition, government authorities and the wider public in the interest of what he called building together Uganda that works for all.
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