President Uhuru Kenyatta and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni at State House in Nairobi. Museveni is reported to be monitoring the Kenyan elections closely. [Photo: PSCU]Jubilee government-friendly Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is reportedly following the Kenyan campaigns closely in case his counterpart President Uhuru Kenyatta, with whom he enjoys a warm relationship, loses to NASA's Raila Odinga.Raila and Museveni are perceived to share a love-hate affair with Raila often bashing Museveni, over the controversial Migingo island. Museveni, on the other hand, seemed to imply that Raila had a hand in UhuRuto's ICC woes which he openly expressed during the duo's inauguration ceremony in 2013.“We will tell Museveni to stop disturbing our fishermen. We want to tell him that this island belongs to all of us, so he stops arresting our fishermen and taking them to Uganda,” Raila said in Budalangi recently during Nasa campaigns.During this year's voter registration by IEBC, Raila also accused Ugandan government of secretly aiding the Jubilee government to register Ugandans to vote in the election.Museveni is also keen on Kenya's election considering that Kenya is Uganda’s gateway to the sea and goods making it from Mombasa are prone to suffer in the event that Kenya is marred by an electoral dispute.The 2007 post-election chaos in Kenya affected neighbouring countries, with the business sector being the most affected. A number of Ugandan traders lost goods worth billions of shillings while the uprooting of the railway to landlocked Uganda by rioters and blocking of major routes meant imports from Mombasa could hardly be moved.The violence also saw Ugandan and Rwandan trucks and goods worth billions of money destroyed along the Nairobi-Eldoret-Kampala Highway which is yet to be compensated by the Kenyan government.

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