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Museveni promises finance for school in Montepuez
7:55 CAT | 22 May 2018
Photo; Twitter @KagutaMuseveni
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday promised to finance a technical school in Montepuez, in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.
Museveni, who was on a state visit to Mozambique, visited the Military Training Centre in Montepuez where he, and 28 other Ugandans, had trained in the late 1970s, in preparation for the war to overthrow Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
According to a report on the independent television station STV, Museveni also promised to finance reconstruction of the barracks in Montepuez.
This, he said, was to thank the Mozambican people for their solidarity. After his training in Montepuez, Museveni headed one of the Ugandan rebel units which fought alongside Tanzanian and Mozambican troops to overthrow Amin in 1979.
FRELIMO veterans Gen Salim Saleh, Lt Gen Ivan Koreta, Col Bosco Omure in Mozambique for joint military projetcs.
To kickstart this venture, Uganda is offering $26,000 which Museveni passed on to the Minister of Defence. https://t.co/M0yk5hwdaD pic.twitter.com/n5HhSqsT3V
— edge.ug (@ug_edge) May 21, 2018
I thank the Ministry of Defence and the government of Mozambique for resolving to preserve the Montepuez barracks as a museum in my memory. pic.twitter.com/oZqRJqPaKE
— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) May 19, 2018
I am glad to have found the veterans still here; those who helped us while we trained. I have seen our instructors, driver, radio signaller, clinical officer and even our cook. pic.twitter.com/wDW0hxLLb1
— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) May 19, 2018
Museveni to Mozambique: “I have given you Shs 93 million to kick start poultry project”. @nilepostnews https://t.co/NzQp5F5PmX #NilePostNews #NBSUpdates pic.twitter.com/Hia6Eha4yz
— NBS Television (@nbstv) May 21, 2018
Museveni, Fronasa fighters give Mozambique veterans $26,000 to start poultry farm – https://t.co/c6Cgu4Ym9x pic.twitter.com/76pcLGvg1w
— Watchdog Uganda (@watchdog_uganda) May 21, 2018
During the visit, Museveni also decorated some of the military instructors involved in training the Ugandan contingent in the 1970s.
Mozambican Defence Minister Atanasio M’tumuke thanked Museveni for his gesture, and declared that his visit would immortalise the relations of friendship between Uganda and Mozambique.
On Thursday, the first day of Museveni’s visit, the Mozambican and Ugandan governments signed a general cooperation agreement, which covers defence and security matters, as well as political and diplomatic cooperation, agriculture, industry and trade and tourism.
It is for this reason that I asked President Jacinto Nyusi, who had invited me to Mozambique for a state visit, to allow me come to Montepuez and thank its people. pic.twitter.com/pzMbObsY0I
— Yoweri K Museveni (@KagutaMuseveni) May 19, 2018
Source: AIM
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