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The Guardian - UK
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Carlos Mureithi in Kampala

‘Controversy is always good fodder’: Uganda’s cartoonists turn their pens on president’s provocative son

A cartoon by Spire
A work by Spire, a Ugandan political cartoonist, mocking the military chief, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, and Balaam Ateenyi, a government minister. Illustration: Spire

A bulky man wearing a baggy green army uniform urinates on the ground. Another man, wearing sandals, stands in the puddle, looks down and says: “I’ve never seen such beautiful susu (urine).”

In the scatological cartoon, which appeared on Facebook, the sycophantic man with wet feet is supposed to be Balaam Ateenyi, a Ugandan government minister. The man relieving himself is Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, head of the military, provocative social media poster and the presumptive heir to his father, President Yoweri Museveni.

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