Rwandan President Paul Kagame has gifted Lieutenant General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Commander of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Land Forces with ten cows.
Gen Muhoozi has been in Kigali since Monday on a working visit to build on the earlier meeting with the Rwandan leader.
The two have been trying to normalise relations between Uganda and Rwanda following the closure of the Katuna border by Rwanda.
Meanwhile Gen Kainerugaba visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Gisozi where he paid tribute to victims of the Genocide.
Located in Gisozi suburb, Kigali Genocide Memorial is home to over 250,000 victims of the Genocide.
After touring the memorial, Muhoozi, who is in the country since Monday, wrote a tribute thanking the government of Rwanda for establishing the memorial which he said will make future generations fearful of repeating the crime of Genocide.
“I’m very saddened by what happened in Rwanda in 1994, the Genocide against Tutsis,” he wrote. “I appreciate the country’s leadership, led by His Excellency Paul Kagame, for deciding to establish this memorial so that future generations will not repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.”
Muhoozi also went to the Campaign Against Genocide Museum in Kimihurura (CAG), where he was given a tour and told about the liberation struggle by Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF).
Located in the Parliamentary Buildings, the museum chronicles the four-year liberation struggle that led to the stopping of the Genocide in July 1994.
He also paid a visit to the Remera-based Kigali Arena, the city’s main event venue, which hosts basketball and volleyball competitions as well as concerts.
Photos that later emerged showed him shooting hoops in one of the nets in the Arena.
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