MK,
Give the devil his due. The man is making sense, although he is saying
inelegantly what Kwame Nkrumah and his generation of African statesmen
put forth so eloquently.
V
Matek Opoko wrote:
/The man is obsessed with this notion of the "ARMY " thing. He
excels best in field of killing...deroying heavily. Attack, shoot
e.t.c .. the fact is that most African countries cannot even feed
their own citizens,.. meanwhile the son of Kaguta is calling upon
African nations to build armies to fight God knows WHO?/
//
/Mk/
Africa: Museveni Urges Africa to Assert Military Supremacy
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October 17, 2006
Posted to the web October 17, 2006
Charles Kazooba
Kampala
Decades of Africa's military inferiority should end, President Yoweri
Museveni has urged. The Ugandan leader has asked the 53 African states
to integrate and engineer military supremacy to encounter threats by
world super powers.
"Inability to build credible military forces that can guarantee the
future of the African race. I have been reading American documents.
They are now talking about four-dimensional superiority. "They want to
be superior on land, in air, at sea and also be superior in space.
When we were guerillas, we would hide in the bush but now when
somebody is in space even when you are in the bush, he is looking at
you. So how do we survive?" Museveni, who captured power in 1986 after
leading a five-year guerilla war, said
He added: "Can Uganda conduct space research? Can Kenya conduct space
research? We are just here sitting. Aren't the Europeans going to the
moon again? Why are they going there? You are thinking they are going
for a holiday?
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"They are going to get resources as a basis for them to come and
control us here. Why don't Africans ask themselves why these people
going to the moon. Why are they going there without telling us what
they are doing there? This is a common property. It is very dangerous.
Yes! Let them go and we also go. If we all go we shall get peace in
the world. But if only one group goes to the moon and the others stay
here, there shall be trouble. But Uganda cannot go to the moon alone.
We do not have the potential to do it."
Museveni was launching consultations on the East African Federation
last week.
The consultations were simultaneously launched in the three partner
States of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The EAC Secretary General, Jumah
Mwapachu, attended the Kampala event. The federation, according to the
secretariat's time table is expected to start in 2011 with a one
rotational leadership among the bloc partners and thereafter elections
of a regional president would be effected after three years. "We
occupy one of the biggest land masses (11million square miles) with
considerable natural resources. Why can we not turn part of this
landmass into a powerful and secure base for the black race? That
powerful base will ensure the future of the blackman. Besides, the
blackman be able to go to the moon. They (whites) are looking for more
natural resources as well as new bases for military supremacy. The
black race is just sitting in these micro-political units created by
colonialism completely oblivious of what is going on in this world,"
the president said.
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