{"id":5174,"date":"2018-08-08T18:39:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T15:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2018-08-08T18:39:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T15:39:36","slug":"uganda-gets-assembling-plant-for-military-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/08\/uganda-gets-assembling-plant-for-military-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Gets Assembling Plant for Military Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Yoweri Museveni and Commander-in-Chief of the Uganda Armed Forces, has commissioned the Nyoka Military Conversion facility at Magamaga military barracks in Jinja District.<\/p>\n

The project that has been ongoing for the last 6 years consists of the manufacturing and assembling of military Nyoka 4×4 mine and ballistic protected vehicles in Uganda as a cost-effective option for urban and rural operations by the Uganda People\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF).<\/p>\n

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A South African company known as Impala Services and Logistics, which got a contract with the Ministry of Defence to start the manufacturing and assembling of the vehicles, is at the helm of the project.<\/p>\n

After touring the facility today, President Museveni saluted the UPDF for exhibiting self-reliance, a quality that all Africans need.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfricans have slept for the last 500 years. It is a long time and I am very glad to see that you are waking up a little bit and I am here to congratulate you. What is crucial is overcoming the psychological barrier of helplessness. This is just the beginning. You can do much more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also called for integrated industries adding that this would help create jobs and save money for the country.<\/p>\n

He thanked Impala Services and Logistics for having partnered with the UPDF and for positively using technology to build improved military vehicles.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am very grateful to the CEO of Impala. He was a cadre of the ANC and joined the South African Army but later retired. His partnering with us is ideological,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

The Chief of the Defense Forces, Gen. David Muhoozi thanked the President for his guidance on the importance of capacity building and self-reliance. He said that through the project, the UPDF has acquired skills, knowledge, technological transfer and procured industrial equipment for manufacturing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Yoweri Museveni and Commander-in-Chief of the Uganda Armed Forces, has commissioned the Nyoka Military Conversion facility at Magamaga military barracks in Jinja District. The project that has been ongoing for the last 6 years consists of the manufacturing and assembling of military Nyoka 4×4 mine and ballistic protected vehicles in Uganda as a cost-effective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":5175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5178,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions\/5178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}