President William Ruto on Saturday arrived in Uganda to attend the country’s Independence Day celebrations.
The country is set to celebrate its 60th Independence Anniversary on Sunday.
The Kenyan Head of State was received by his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni on Saturday.
The visit is also meant to strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries.
But the anniversary had been marked with tensions between the two neighbouring countries after Museveni’s son, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, last week issued a series of tweets that derided Ruto’s election and joked about the ease with which his troops could capture Nairobi in two weeks.
The tweets forced Museveni to apologise personally to Kenya, and remove Muhoozi as head of Land Forces.
“I am very sorry for what my son Muhoozi did. I ask our Kenyan brothers and sisters to forgive us for tweets sent by General Muhoozi, former Commander of the Land Forces,” he said on Wednesday.
However, he took no further action. Instead, the Ugandan President promoted his son to a full general, making him the youngest Ugandan soldier today to hold such a title.
President Ruto’s team had threatened to skip the ceremony over the tweets unless an apology came but even after that, it was expected that the two leaders would hold a bilateral session in Kampala on Saturday to discuss the issue.
