Kiira Motors is a Ugandan company that came into the Vehicle manufacturing space as the ultimate savior of the Ugandan race. In 2011, the company launched a beetle like cruiser dressed in green named as the Kiira Poc before we saw a Sedan class come to life with the EVS now available for pre-order on its second iteration.
With the promises to fully manufacture cars in Uganda, Kiira Motors has now opened the eyes of legislators who now demand accountability for over UGX 15 billion dedicated in the previous national budgets to build a local plant for producing the proclaimed electric cars.
Well, we’re surprised as you are! When the Kiira EVS hit Kampala streets with media tensioners blooming it as the beast with close engine comparisons to the Subaru racing speeds. We thought Uganda was ready to manufacture cars for good. However, the dream seems to be shuttered by an unfinished vehicle assembling plant dominated by bush in Jinja.
According to the parliamentary committee on Science, Technology, and Innovation, Kiira motors was given extensive support to build a Vehicle assembly plant in Jinja. But during a brief site visit last month, the legislators were surprised with a green bushy layout of the plant.
The progress of the project is not in line with the plan yet government has made appropriate financial provisions which would give a different level of the target progress. At the moment there is nothing…Indeed what we are seeing, is contrary to what they have been telling us “ – Buikwe South MP David Ronnie Mutebi
In reply to the Legislator claims, Kiira Motors CEO Paul Isaac Musasizi explained the received funds as waivers that extended electricity and water to the plant. However, the committee further revealed that no water or electricity lines were witnessed at the plant, but instead more layers covered by bush.
Given the fact that the Kiira EVS is available for preorder at $35,000, does this mean the EVS and Kayoola bus are assembled from a different center rather than the planned UGX 15 billion plant? So, electric cars in Uganda still have a huge question mark on when they will be ready for manufacture in Uganda since Kiira motors received all necessary support and progress seems to be on a railway route for full production of cars in Uganda.
