{"id":3121,"date":"2021-05-04T21:08:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T21:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2021-05-06T06:33:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T06:33:59","slug":"out-going-10th-parliament-mps-wish-kiira-motors-well-ask-govt-to-treat-it-as-national-legacy-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/out-going-10th-parliament-mps-wish-kiira-motors-well-ask-govt-to-treat-it-as-national-legacy-project\/","title":{"rendered":"OUT GOING 10th PARLIAMENT MPS WISH KIIRA MOTORS WELL ASK GOVT TO TREAT IT AS NATIONAL LEGACY PROJECT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Out going members of&nbsp; the 10<sup>th<\/sup> parliament on the Committees of Science and Technology and ICT have called upon government to continue supporting the Kiira Motors project- to install the production line and have the company\u2019s Vehicles Plant at the&nbsp; Jinja Industrial and Business Park operational later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While on their last over sight visit at the Kiira Vehicles Plant site before the 10<sup>th<\/sup> parliament is dissolved next week ,&nbsp; the MPS said government had made the right decision to invest in the Kiira Motors project which will see Uganda join the world\u2019s car production countries and create unprecedented economic opportunities for Ugandans along the automotive industry value chain .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parliamentarians were led by Hon. Eng Lillian Nakate &nbsp;&nbsp;and Hon Waira Majegere Kyewalabye the Deputy Chairperson ICT &nbsp;and S &amp;T, respectively .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe salute the team at Kiira motors for their resilience to realize mission vehicles made in Uganda\u00a0 which will lead to import substitution , localization of the automotive industry supply chain\u00a0 and create jobs,\u201d out going MP for Busiro South Peter Semantimba , stated adding that Kiira Motors should be treated as a \u201clegacy national project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eng Nakate who was visiting the KVP for the first time hailed the UPDF engineering bridge working under the National Enterprise Corporation (NEC) headed by amiable Gen. James Mugira for constructing what she said will be a \u201cworld class\u201d vehicle plant- the largest in the East and Central African region . \u201c With this facility Uganda has demonstrated that it&nbsp; has what it takes to taken on large -scale projects of national strategic importance . We should all be proud of the men and women in uniform for a good job done,\u201d She said while calling upon the management of Kiira Motors to use the vehicle plant to deliver competitive products and make Uganda proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hon Kyewalabye , said that government should make the plant operational by funding the production line before the close of the year as per the road map which was passed by cabinet in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat is not in doubt is that Kiira Motors has demonstrated that&nbsp; it has the capabilities and technical know how to produce vehicles that can match any other on the world market . We must now have vehicles produced locally on a commercial scale and government should buy vehicles from Kiira Motors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MPs urged KMC the national automotive industry flagship to continue with the development of its green mobility &nbsp;technologies to produce fully electric vehicles so that Uganda and Africa are not left behind in the global race to replace combustion engine powered vehicles by EVs by the close of this decade .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kiira Motors Executive Chairman and the CEO, Prof Standy Stevens Tickodri -Togboa and Mr. Paul Isaac Musasizi told the MPs that the Company&nbsp; working with Partners plans produce and deploy 1,030 buses by end of 2021, 50 of which will be Electric. The initiative is aimed at modernizing public transport in the urban centers in Uganda and beyond, while building the indigenous motor vehicle industry through technology transfer and supply chain localization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out going members of&nbsp; the 10th parliament on the Committees of Science and Technology and ICT have called upon government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-20210423-WA0089-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10520,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/members-of-parliament-pledge-to-support-kiira-vehicle-plant-in-jinja\/","url_meta":{"origin":3121,"position":0},"title":"Members of Parliament pledge to support Kiira Vehicle Plant in Jinja","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"November 12, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"By Gloria Kembabazi JINJA \u2014 Members of Parliament on the Parliamentary Presidential Affairs Committee have commended Kiira Motors for championing the country\u2019s nascent automotive industry and pledged their support to see that Uganda achieves its mobility aspirations. 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