Nigeria, Jan. 21 -- Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, on Monday, openly admitted to killing 22 members of the opposition National Unity Platform (NUP).

Mr Kainerugaba, who is also the country's Chief of Defence Force, wrote in a series of posts on X that the government killed 22 members of the opposition party last week, during the presidential election, which saw his father secure a seventh term.

He also threatened to kill the leading opposition candidate and leader of the NUP party, Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine. He, however, later deleted the tweets.

The election, which extended President Museveni's decades-long hold on power, was marred by an internet shutdown, attacks on oppositio...