Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, has now claimed that it will take him, and his army less than two weeks to take control of Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.
In a series of tweets the scion made on Monday, Kainerugaba made the statement in an apparent show of strength he and his army possess.
"It wouldn't take us, my army and me, 2 weeks to capture Nairobi," he tweeted.
Kainerugaba is a Ugandan military commander serving as the commander of the land forces of the Uganda People's Defence Force and who was previously the commander of the Special Forces Command.
Kenyans who weighed into his remarks perceived them as demeaning even as others dared him to make good his threat.
In his earlier tweet that preceded the threat, Muhoozi made statements that appeared to cast aspersion on the Kenyan democracy.
The scion laughed off Kenya's constitutional provision of presidential term limits insinuatuing that that does not work for Uganda.
"Haha! I love my Kenyan relatives. Constitution? Rule of law? You must be joking! For us, there is only the Revolution and you will soon learn about it!" he said.
Muhoozi was appointed by his father as the commander of land forces in the army in June 2021.
It was the second time Museveni was promoting his son, now aged 49, in the hierarchy of the army in a span of six months.