Uganda’s army chief, the son of long-serving President Yoweri Museveni, ordered the country’s main independent media group to halt operations, after accusing it of biased reporting.

Nation Media Group’s television station NTV Uganda and Daily Monitor newspaper will remain closed until further notice, Muhoozi Kainerugaba said in a series of posts on X early on Sunday. Calls to the company’s main office for comment didn’t connect.

“In Uganda, I DO NOT believe in a free press!” Muhoozi said. “The press should be guided by cadres of the revolution.”

Kainerugaba, 52, has repeatedly said he plans to succeed his octogenarian father, who’s ruled Uganda since 1986. The army chief has also used social media for a string of controversial statements that included threatening to invade neighboring Kenya and intimidating opposition leaders.

NTV Uganda said its offices as well as those of the Daily Monitor are under military siege after the directive by Kainerugaba, publishing a video showing soldiers stationed outside its headquarters in the capital, Kampala. Other outlets affected include radio channels Dembe FM, Spark TV and KFM, it said.

A raid in the early hours of Sunday morning resulted in “electricity disconnection and disruption of normal operations across our platforms on radio, TV and newspapers,” the company said in a statement on X.

Nation Media’s outlets have had a series of disputes with the authorities in the past.

Last year, it was barred from covering presidential and parliamentary functions, while in 2013, the Daily Monitor along with Dembe FM and KFM were closed for more than a week after the newspaper reported about an alleged plot to assassinate political and military officials opposed to Kainerugaba’s drive to succeed his father. The government at the time denied there was any such succession plan.