Police get armoured vehicles
The much-awaited Nyala RG-12 armoured vehicles ordered by the Police from South Africa, to bolster the policing of the just-concluded elections, have finally arrived.
By Steven Candia
The much-awaited Nyala RG-12 armoured vehicles ordered by the Police from South Africa, to bolster the policing of the just-concluded elections, have finally arrived.
Four out of the 12 units ordered were flown to Entebbe International Airport on Thursday morning, sources said.
Police director of operations Francis Rwego, who was upcountry when contacted, said, “I don’t know whether they have arrived but we were expecting them.â€
Last year, the Police ordered for 12 armoured vehicles from South Africa and the first batch were expected in the country by the end of last year but did not make it.
Thereafter, the vehicles were expected just days to the elections but their delivery again hit a snag.
But sources said the arrival of the vehicles after elections would turn them into sitting ducks, an opinion Rwego dismissed.
“They were not only meant for the elections. These are public order vehicles and public order is an on-going thing,†he said. By yesterday morning, the vehicles were being cleared at the airport by Southern enterprises. The deal for the 12 Nyalas, manufactured by Land Systems OMC, is to cost the Police Force $870,000 (sh1.98b).
The much-awaited Nyala RG-12 armoured vehicles ordered by the Police from South Africa, to bolster the policing of the just-concluded elections, have finally arrived.
Four out of the 12 units ordered were flown to Entebbe International Airport on Thursday morning, sources said.
Police director of operations Francis Rwego, who was upcountry when contacted, said, “I don’t know whether they have arrived but we were expecting them.â€
Last year, the Police ordered for 12 armoured vehicles from South Africa and the first batch were expected in the country by the end of last year but did not make it.
Thereafter, the vehicles were expected just days to the elections but their delivery again hit a snag.
But sources said the arrival of the vehicles after elections would turn them into sitting ducks, an opinion Rwego dismissed.
“They were not only meant for the elections. These are public order vehicles and public order is an on-going thing,†he said. By yesterday morning, the vehicles were being cleared at the airport by Southern enterprises. The deal for the 12 Nyalas, manufactured by Land Systems OMC, is to cost the Police Force $870,000 (sh1.98b).