MUSEVENI PRIDES IN ADOPTING APATHEID S.A'S TOOLS OF SUPPRESSION
Today, Uganda's military dictator, Museveni toured and commissioned the Nyoka military conversion facility at Magamaga military barracks in Mayuge District. During the occasion he said;
"I thank the UPDF for the iniative and Impala Company for working with our army in using this mine-resistant technology that had been iniatiated by the South African white army.
When in the Bush, we had 100 mines from Libya but we used them to do much damage to the government. By the time we finished the landmines, we had finished the government. Landmines had brought down the government of the Portuguese in Mozambique. Samora Machel used to say "the mine was the nuclear bomb of Africa.
After Nelson Mandela came to power in 1994 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. 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.
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. I am very grateful to the CEO of Impala, Damian de Lange. He was a cadre of the ANC and joined the South African Army but later retired. His partnering with us is ideological."
These armoured vehicles were developed for uses by the Apartheid South Africa for the control of riots by the struggling black South Africans. They were named Nyala (a spiral horned antelope which is native to South Africa). They were at hand in all the nasty incidents of massacres in South Africa. As he put it, indeed when Mandela came to power their manufacture was banned and the factory was closed because they symbolized the repression under apartheid. However, during the 2012, massacre of 34 protesting miners in cold blood, these vehicles were at hand (see photo).
Museveni acquired the first set of these vehicles around the mid 1990s. He modified them from anti riot to infantry combat armored personnel carriers mounted by machine guns. He renamed them Buffalo and Mamba. They were very active in the counter insurgency operations in northern Uganda. With the end of the insurgency and emergence of street protests in other parts of the country, these vehicles have been at hand to suppress through miming and outright massacre. The most recent being in Kasese where over 100 innocent souls were massacred in cold blood.
Jusfying the massacre, the regime had this to say;
“We took time to talk to the king to get those people out but the king was non-compliant. The only option was to storm the palace and get those people out and get him out for his own security and safety,” (…) “He has to explain his involvement in these incidents. He will be charged with inciting violence and brought to Kampala.” – AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi. No wonder, the heartless Kaweesi was shortly after killed by unknown people
The Sharpeville Massacre of South Africa (pictured) stands as one of the police’s most-heinous displays of violence against demonstrators during the period of Apartheid in 1960. In protest of the Pass Laws, a passport system enacted under Apartheid to further segregate the population, thousands of Black protesters took to the streets to combat the racist law. Initially, the Pass Laws were put into effect in the 1920s and only targeted Black South Africans.
The Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) marching in Sharpeville, the group descended upon the local police station and allowed themselves to be arrested for not carrying their “passbooks” or passports. The numbers vary, but a reported 5,000 to 10,000 appeared in the township. Although the demonstration was mostly peaceful, the mood darkened once police called in armed reinforcements.
The crowd reportedly grew to 19,000 and began throwing rocks at the police. According to all accounts, none of the protesters carried weapons, though. The police opened fire, after tear gas and baton assaults failed to control the crowd. Around 300 persons were shot, leaving 69 dead and 180 injured. Police claimed that young, inexperienced officers were the catalyst for the tragic event, but an investigation in 1998 yielded possibilities that the police firing their weapons was ordered by superiors.
Museveni did not only admire the Mambas and Buffalos of Apatheid South Africa. He copied and pasted their Public Safety Act into his own draconian Public Oder Management Act. Article 92 of the Uganda 1995 Constitution provides that Parliament shall not pass any law to alter the decision or judgment of any court as between the parties to the decision.
This was a deliberate decision by government to re-introduce the same law that court had declared unconstitutional. The main architect of the POMA, who was the then Minister of Security, Amama Mbabazi was among the first victims of the same draconian law. The other day we were told of how the police had imported batons and other torture equipment from South Africa.
On 18/6/2018 Museveni commissioned into service four 850 Military Patrol Boats (MPB) built in South Africa and supplied by Twiga Services and Logistics under a contract by Impala Services and Logistics Limited of Uganda. The commissioning followed a firepower demonstration near the UPDF Marine base at Port Alice Pier near Entebbe. The Marines also demonstrated combat tactics, water survival skills and scuba diving capabilities.
The boats were built in Cape Town and supplied by Twiga under contract from sister company Impala Services and Logistics in Uganda. Training and technical support was part of the package, with training taking place in Cape Town and Entebbe.
Each boat is fitted with a machine gun mounted on the bow and a machine gun on each side of the rear of the vessel and is powered by two 200 horsepower Yamaha outboard engines giving a top speed of around 35 knots. The MPB marine electronics system includes radar, underwater scanners, engine management system and wifi system. The boats are 8.5 metres long and 2.3 meters wide accommodating three gunners and boarding party of four, coxswain and marine electronic system operator.
The Twiga rugged patrol boat range, which includes the 850 Military Patrol Boat, is made from High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), which make them virtually indestructible water platforms, although slightly heavier than conventional boats.
They are built by Rhino Marine, which has granted Twiga the sole agency for its military craft. The MPB are supplied from 6.5 to 12.0 meters and designed for riverine and close to coast operations. The HDPE provides positive bouncy and is simple to maintain should it suffer damage.
Impala Services and Logistics has worked with the UPDF since 2011, manufacturing the Nyoka Armoured Personnel Carrier in Jinja together with the Ugandan military. The first Nyoka were commissioned at the Maga Maga defence industry facility in August 2014. Impala Services continues to manufacture in Uganda and provides fourth line re-manufacture for the UPDF in Mogadishu.
Twiga and Impala have been in business since early 2011 and supply military and security forces with armoured vehicles, night vision equipment, rugged boat systems, thermal imaging devices and a wide range of training and support programmes. Around 90% of Twiga's business is joint venture manufacturing of armoured personnel carriers, the supply of spares, weapons mounts, night vision systems and ex-South African vehicles and equipment.
You can imagine, as South Africans are advancing in civilisation, Museveni's Uganda is busy acquiring the disbanded tools and draconian legislations of former Apartheid regime. With the ailing economy, grossly broken health and education system, priority is on manufacturing of anti-riot equipments. If it was a factory for making mosquitoes nets, Ugandans would rejoice.
INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM
When in the Bush, we had 100 mines from Libya but we used them to do much damage to the government. By the time we finished the landmines, we had finished the government. Landmines had brought down the government of the Portuguese in Mozambique. Samora Machel used to say "the mine was the nuclear bomb of Africa.
After Nelson Mandela came to power in 1994 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. 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.
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. I am very grateful to the CEO of Impala, Damian de Lange. He was a cadre of the ANC and joined the South African Army but later retired. His partnering with us is ideological."
These armoured vehicles were developed for uses by the Apartheid South Africa for the control of riots by the struggling black South Africans. They were named Nyala (a spiral horned antelope which is native to South Africa). They were at hand in all the nasty incidents of massacres in South Africa. As he put it, indeed when Mandela came to power their manufacture was banned and the factory was closed because they symbolized the repression under apartheid. However, during the 2012, massacre of 34 protesting miners in cold blood, these vehicles were at hand (see photo).
Museveni acquired the first set of these vehicles around the mid 1990s. He modified them from anti riot to infantry combat armored personnel carriers mounted by machine guns. He renamed them Buffalo and Mamba. They were very active in the counter insurgency operations in northern Uganda. With the end of the insurgency and emergence of street protests in other parts of the country, these vehicles have been at hand to suppress through miming and outright massacre. The most recent being in Kasese where over 100 innocent souls were massacred in cold blood.
Jusfying the massacre, the regime had this to say;
“We took time to talk to the king to get those people out but the king was non-compliant. The only option was to storm the palace and get those people out and get him out for his own security and safety,” (…) “He has to explain his involvement in these incidents. He will be charged with inciting violence and brought to Kampala.” – AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi. No wonder, the heartless Kaweesi was shortly after killed by unknown people
The Sharpeville Massacre of South Africa (pictured) stands as one of the police’s most-heinous displays of violence against demonstrators during the period of Apartheid in 1960. In protest of the Pass Laws, a passport system enacted under Apartheid to further segregate the population, thousands of Black protesters took to the streets to combat the racist law. Initially, the Pass Laws were put into effect in the 1920s and only targeted Black South Africans.
The Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) marching in Sharpeville, the group descended upon the local police station and allowed themselves to be arrested for not carrying their “passbooks” or passports. The numbers vary, but a reported 5,000 to 10,000 appeared in the township. Although the demonstration was mostly peaceful, the mood darkened once police called in armed reinforcements.
The crowd reportedly grew to 19,000 and began throwing rocks at the police. According to all accounts, none of the protesters carried weapons, though. The police opened fire, after tear gas and baton assaults failed to control the crowd. Around 300 persons were shot, leaving 69 dead and 180 injured. Police claimed that young, inexperienced officers were the catalyst for the tragic event, but an investigation in 1998 yielded possibilities that the police firing their weapons was ordered by superiors.
Museveni did not only admire the Mambas and Buffalos of Apatheid South Africa. He copied and pasted their Public Safety Act into his own draconian Public Oder Management Act. Article 92 of the Uganda 1995 Constitution provides that Parliament shall not pass any law to alter the decision or judgment of any court as between the parties to the decision.
On May 27, 2008, the Constitutional Court in constitutional petition No. 9 of 2005, Muwanga Kivumbi versus Attorney General, declared Section 32(2) of the Police Act unconstitutional and inconsistent with the provisions of Article 29(1) (d) of the Constitution. Despite the existence of the binding judgment of the Constitutional Court, Parliament went ahead and enacted the Public Order Management Act, 2013, with a provision under Section 8(1) similar to the annulled Section 32(2) of the Police Act.
This was a deliberate decision by government to re-introduce the same law that court had declared unconstitutional. The main architect of the POMA, who was the then Minister of Security, Amama Mbabazi was among the first victims of the same draconian law. The other day we were told of how the police had imported batons and other torture equipment from South Africa.
On 18/6/2018 Museveni commissioned into service four 850 Military Patrol Boats (MPB) built in South Africa and supplied by Twiga Services and Logistics under a contract by Impala Services and Logistics Limited of Uganda. The commissioning followed a firepower demonstration near the UPDF Marine base at Port Alice Pier near Entebbe. The Marines also demonstrated combat tactics, water survival skills and scuba diving capabilities.
The boats were built in Cape Town and supplied by Twiga under contract from sister company Impala Services and Logistics in Uganda. Training and technical support was part of the package, with training taking place in Cape Town and Entebbe.
Each boat is fitted with a machine gun mounted on the bow and a machine gun on each side of the rear of the vessel and is powered by two 200 horsepower Yamaha outboard engines giving a top speed of around 35 knots. The MPB marine electronics system includes radar, underwater scanners, engine management system and wifi system. The boats are 8.5 metres long and 2.3 meters wide accommodating three gunners and boarding party of four, coxswain and marine electronic system operator.
The Twiga rugged patrol boat range, which includes the 850 Military Patrol Boat, is made from High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), which make them virtually indestructible water platforms, although slightly heavier than conventional boats.
They are built by Rhino Marine, which has granted Twiga the sole agency for its military craft. The MPB are supplied from 6.5 to 12.0 meters and designed for riverine and close to coast operations. The HDPE provides positive bouncy and is simple to maintain should it suffer damage.
Impala Services and Logistics has worked with the UPDF since 2011, manufacturing the Nyoka Armoured Personnel Carrier in Jinja together with the Ugandan military. The first Nyoka were commissioned at the Maga Maga defence industry facility in August 2014. Impala Services continues to manufacture in Uganda and provides fourth line re-manufacture for the UPDF in Mogadishu.
Twiga and Impala have been in business since early 2011 and supply military and security forces with armoured vehicles, night vision equipment, rugged boat systems, thermal imaging devices and a wide range of training and support programmes. Around 90% of Twiga's business is joint venture manufacturing of armoured personnel carriers, the supply of spares, weapons mounts, night vision systems and ex-South African vehicles and equipment.
You can imagine, as South Africans are advancing in civilisation, Museveni's Uganda is busy acquiring the disbanded tools and draconian legislations of former Apartheid regime. With the ailing economy, grossly broken health and education system, priority is on manufacturing of anti-riot equipments. If it was a factory for making mosquitoes nets, Ugandans would rejoice.
INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM
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