President Yoweri Museveni believes the sky is the limit for Uganda after he commissioned mambas and buffaloes resistant to mines, locally overhauled using local technology.
President Museveni last night toured and commissioned the Nyoka military conversion facility at Magamaga military barracks in Mayuge District.
The President hailed: “I thank the UPDF for the initiative and Impala Company for working with our army in using this mine-resistant technology that had been initiated by the South African white army.”
He recalled: “After Nelson Mandela came to power in South Africa, we learnt of these vehicles which were in two types; mambas and buffaloes. We also later learnt that the company making them was stopping production, which prompted me to direct that we take over the technology.”
President Museveni noted: “The good thing about armour is that it will be there for a long time. The only parts that grow old are the moving parts. That is how we developed the overhaul concept, the Nyoka vehicles.”
He appreciated: “Ugandans are finally waking up. For an educated population like ours, these things are easy. It is simple physics and chemistry. Now that you are getting out of sleep, the sky is the limit.”
Award winning journalist and writer who has worked as a stringer for a couple of acclaimed South Africa based German journalists, covered 3 Ugandan elections, 2008 Kenya election crisis, with interests in business and sports reporting.
