The\nSpeaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has visited and pledged continued\nsupport to the Kiira Motors Plant, the local makers of electric motor vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kiira\nMotors Corporation (KMC) is located in the Jinja Industrial and Business Park\nin Kagogwa village, Kakira Town Council, in Jinja district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\nwant to thank the President for his foresight to establish National Enterprises\nCorporation (NEC) and Kiira Motors. I want assure Kiira Motors and [the\nMinister for Science, Technology and Innovation] Dr. Elioda Tumwesigye that you\nhave my support,\u201d she said during the visit on Saturday 14 March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kadaga\nencouraged the people present to invest in the growing of bamboo out of which\nthe floor of the Kayoola EVS, one of the products of KMC, is made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During\nthe visit, the Speaker took a ride on one of the buses from the Source of the\nNile to Kagogwa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KMC\nworking with China High-Tech Corporation has two Kayoola EVS buses, which\ncurrently providing selected shuttle services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nDirector General of the Busoga Consortium for Development, Anthony Mula,\nthanked the Speaker for pushing for the project to grow and appealed to the\nfirm to employ more locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He\nalso appealed to government to locate more industries in Busoga, which he said\nhas plenty of unutilized land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nPermanent Secretary, MSTI, David Obong, commended Kiira Motor\u2019s dedication to\nthe project and said he looks forward to the commissioning of the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He\nappealed to government to provide more funds so the project, which has now\nstalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nExecutive Chairman of the Project, Prof Sandy Stevens Tickodri, appealed to\ngovernment to provide Shs 49.5 billion and 2sq miles of land required for\ntesting of their products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KMC\nis expected to create over 14,000 jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has visited and pledged continued support to the Kiira Motors Plant, the local makers of electric motor vehicles. Kiira Motors Corporation (KMC) is located in the Jinja Industrial and Business Park in Kagogwa village, Kakira Town Council, in Jinja district. \u201cI want to thank the President for his foresight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":14561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n