Moments after a video went viral showing Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) parachuters landing unskillfully, the army has spoken on the incident.

In a statement, UPDF spokesperson, Brigadier General Felix Kulayigye denied any knowledge of the parachuters in the viral video.

“Our attention has been drawn to a video doing rounds on social media purported to be a video of UPDF paratroopers that performed a tremendous job on Independence Day. Therefore, ignore this video because it is fake,” the statement read in part.

“A keen eye will see that the parachutes are not the ones that were used at Kololo ceremonial grounds. Secondly, such a crowd did not attend the Independence Celebration and all our paratroopers had successful jumps,” the statement further reads.

The video of the parachuters emerged on social media a day after Uganda held its independence celebrations attended by Kenya’s President William Ruto and First Lady Rachel Ruto.

The video, coming weeks after former Ugandan Land Forces Commander General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, threatned to capture Nairobi city, had served nothing but attracting mockery to UPDF.

Kenyans mocked Uganda, with a section of the critics trolling General Muhoozi.

Former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko wondered how Muhoozi planned to capture Nairobi with such unskilled paratroopers.

“These are Ugandan paratroopers. Are they the people who want to take over Nairobi in a week?

“Instead of landing at the centre of the field, they are landing on top of the stadium roofs and people,” Sonko joined Kenyans in trolling Muhoozi.

Others argued that Uganda’s army was untrained and could not match their Kenyan counterparts in showcasing skills at drills.

“If that’s the way they were going to land in Nairobi under the command of Muhoozi to capture the city, then could just send jeshi la wokovu (Salvation Army) to deal with them,” one Twitter user joked.

Muhoozi was dropped as the Commander of Land forces and promoted to General by his father, Yoweri Museveni who also apologized to Ruto and Kenya.

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