Museveni opens new armoured vehicle factory in Uganda

 Streit’s new armoured vehicle factory in Uganda, built in partnership with the National Enterprise Corporation (NEC), was formally opened by President Yoweri Museveni this week.

In mid-October 2021, NEC announced the partnership with Streit Group for the manufacture of armoured vehicles in Nakosongola in central Uganda.

The new company, NEC-Streit Uganda Ltd, will provide a variety of security solutions, including through technology transfer.

“I am happy to witness clear dividends in the form of production and assembly plants under NEC-private companies’ joint ventures,” Museveni said while commissioning the armoured vehicle facility on 27 July, along with a 500 kW solar power plant, a surgical masks and sanitizer producing entity, and an oxygen/nitrogen plant. He also inspected some of the vehicles manufactured by Kiira motors.

“I salute the progress that our scientists are making in those fields, acquiring the capacity to produce quality products to enable us to stand on our own, not only in the military space but in other areas of strategic importance to enhance our broad security,” Museveni said. He added that Uganda would no longer need to buy foreign vehicles when local manufacturing was possible.

“It’s a full-fledged manufacturing facility, not just assembly,” Streit chairman Guerman Goutorov said. “All the products it will produce you can proudly say: made in Uganda.” He added that its products will help fight terrorism and crime.