PRESIDENT'S SON OFFERS 100 COWS TO MARRY PRIME MINISTER
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, issued a bizarre string of Tweets this week in which he offered to trade 100 cows for the right to marry Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and he threatened war if the "Romans" refused his offer.
"For my Italian friends, these are Nkore cows," the son wrote. "The most beautiful cows on earth. I know Europeans give girls that they like flowers. I have never understood it. In our culture, you give a girl that you like a cow.”
He wrote in a separate Tweet, that included a picture of Meloni: "I would give Giorgia 100 Nkore cows immediately! For being fearless and true!"
The Ugandan king’s son continued his proposal with a threat: to go to war with Italy in the event that his offer of cows was refused. He said, “If the Romans reject our cows, that means we must capture Rome. But, that would take us days to do.”
The president's son continued his thoughts the next day, saying, "I think I have to start for Rome. But, how do I get 100 cows through Customs?"
The king’s son has over 600,000 followers. He is known in Africa as the "Tweeting General" because of his unusual social media habits and his military rank.
The Ugandan king formally apologized for other inappropriate comments his son had previously made, threatening to invade Kenya. The king announced he was removing his son from command of the country's land forces. However, he simultaneously promoted him to four-star general. The king did not address his son's proposal to the Italian politician.
Until now, Italian Prime Minister Meloni does not appear to have replied to her would-be suitor or to his generous offer of farm animals.
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